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Don W wrote:

It would have been more accurate to say that your life was worth a bit more
TO YOU, than his camera was TO YOU. Your value to him may have been a lot
more than the camera, or possibly not depending on how well he liked you at
the moment ;-)

Don W.

Kind of like two guys out walking, and encountering a BIG Bear.....
Both started running, but one tripped the other, and as he kept going
stated, that he only had to faster than his companion........

Me