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A man once hired his new son-in-law to build him a house. The man told his son-in-law that the house was going to be a surprise for his wife for their 30th anniversary, and he did not want him to spare any expense in building it. The son-in-law was already a cheap man who made his living ripping people off, and his mother-in-law never liked him and didn’t think he was good enough to marry her daughter, so he was really going to enjoy getting a lot of money from them while he did everything as cheap as possible. He charged his father-in-law for all the best equipment, lumber, roofing, plumbing and anything else he could think of while he only used the cheapest and even second-hand materials he could find. When the...

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