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is his father. Filburt holds the record number of jobs in the series: nine. These include a cashier at a grocery store, cashier at Kind-of-A-Lot-O'-Comics, license checker at the
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who is often pessimistic. In the
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an enormous collection of empty cans in his trailer at the Patch o' Heaven
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