“This bug is to make my fortune,” he continued, with a triumphant smile, “to reinstate me in my family possessions. Is it any wonder then, that I prize it? Since fortune has thought fit to bestow it upon me, I have only to use it properly and I shall arrive at the gold.” —Edgar Allan Poe, “The Gold Bug” Gold fever is infectious. Not in a flu-like way. Instead, it captures men’s minds and passions, and lingers with them forever. Ron Feldman has it ... and has had it all o


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