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Re: What was the name and author of this short Sci-Fi piece, Please?

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bosodeniro@gmail.com wrote:
> First appeared as a Playboy Sci-Fi story circa 60s 70s 80s about a desperate
> gambler panhandling for the only currency available in a future Berkeley where
> passing palms across each other passes on short debit and credit transactions
> of time by young students, street people, and the down and out in a dispassionate
> last attempt to give a guy a dimes worth of time - i tried to look it up but
> couldn't find it, anybody recognize or know it, Thanks.

According to a website that offers up the story for free, _Playboy_ 
published "Time is Money" (Falk) in its December 1975 issue:

http://mandrake-comics.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-is-money-short-story-by-lee-falk.html

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Thank you,

-- 
Don

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