Smuggling: bacon to Bibles

Another friend managed a similar situation by purposely living below the poverty line. Whatever works. Back to smuggling. It was 1969. The Czechoslovakian border guards carried machine guns. We were daring. Bibles were contraband. Take it from me, you can stash about seven in the pockets of a London Fog. If we’d been caught, would they have lined us up and opened...

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