They started popping up next to the coffee and snack machines. Vending machines dispensing icons of saints, kings, and queens. Put your money in and get a miniature figure of Joan of Arc or Peter the Great, along with one of their famous quotations. Setting up the machines to accept coins, the old fashioned way, was a nice touch. There was something about the hollow plunk of loose change falling, and popping open the plastic egg with the dim glow of neon in the background that magnetically drew desperate people in.
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