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just another update on my propensity for random purchases, although how random they are would be determined by your generosity of thought in respect of memories provoked. to slightly cut to the chase, i recently procured a new wallet. no, i had no need for a new one, look you see, but here we are. 

there was i, more or less minding my own business, wandering a market type of market. ever eager, indeed keen, to support commerce and help the world we made (despite its many flaws and faults) churn, i glanced at all stalls, to see if i might be able to hand over coins (or notes) in exchange for some item or another. 

one stall which caught said (or my) eye was one selling a number of things. specifically, mind, it was that a number of belts were on display. i appear to have "issues" with this particular form of garment, but i would not wish to trouble you with my plight. rather, then, see what i noted there, and what i bought. and let there be no surprise at this, as just moments earlier i mentioned it was (is) a wallet. 

yes, indeed, that is a likeness, or representation of the most iconic portrait, of Ernesto Che Guevara, the celebrated Argentine medical student turned revolutionary. depending on how you define what he did and that term. i figured why not buy it. 

indeed, there was a time, late teens and well into my twenties, where and when it was so that any item bearing the likeness of Che generally got purchased. evidence such as this has a tendency not to lie, so i guess then that i was one of those types of student types. 

as it happens, this very subject cropped up with Spiros, when reminiscing of our youth. he had randomly recalled that time when i needed to go and get permission to remain where i was at the time, which was South Africa, to stay in the country as a guest, like my family, so that i may continue to study. so i went along, to an official looking building in Pretoria, in the last throes of the "apartheid" government (which was a bit right wing), wearing a Che t-shirt that had a hammer and sickle on it (which is regarded as being a bit left wing). quite an uncomfortable session, but there you go. 

by no means do i consider myself expert on the subject of wallets or in any form some kind of connoisseur type, or whatever. but, this one looks functional enough, what with it having flaps, folders, pockets, pouches and that. i have modified or "pimped" it, of course, removing that keychain aspect. 

no, not really sure why i went to all the trouble of making such a modification, as i really have little intent or interest in ever using this one. my current wallet, true, is quite old and a bit worse for wear. yet remains functional, and anyway the two of us have been through a fair bit together. 

maybe i may well use this from time to time. doing so would rely on me for some reason wishing to visit somewhere or other without my regular one. i have no thoughts on what that would or could be, but yet leave that option open. 

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