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My First Million-Dollar Month

It came just after the deadly hamsterpox outbreak of 2032

3 min readAug 12, 2022

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I remember how thrilled I was a decade ago, when inflation was just starting to take off, and I first earned a thousand dollars on Medium.

It was great! I used the money to buy a set of badly needed new tires.

Last month, August of 2032, I made a million bucks here, and I again used the money to buy new tires. Well, of course, the $1M didn’t cover all four of them; don’t be ridiculous! I had to use my earnings from my OnlyGrans elder porn account to cover the rest of the cost.

Still, the million bucks did pay for three of the four new tires, so I’m counting that as a win!

A lot has changed in the last decade.

It’s hard to believe how happy I was to earn a thousand bucks back in August 2022. It reminds me of how, when I was a very small child, my grandma would give me a quarter to buy penny candy and I’d get a small sack.

Hahahaha!

“Penny candy” was a thing in my lifetime! Now, of course, if you slip a kid a hundred-dollar bill and suggest she use it for candy, she will kick you in the shins, and rightly so. You can’t get a piece of candy for that, and she knows…

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Michelle Teheux
Michelle Teheux

Written by Michelle Teheux

Lover of literature. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact: [email protected]. To buy me a coffee:

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