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<p>Over the past few weeks, I’ve been laser-focused on getting my finances in order. Like many Americans over eighteen, I’ve accumulated more than my fair share of debt—along with the bad spending habits that come with it. Credit cards, a car loan that’s longer than it should be—everything short of payday loans and collections—I’ve got it.</p>
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<p>Fortunately, I caught the problem early enough to turn it around. I did what every financial advisor suggests: built a strict budget that includes only essentials. To my surprise, I found myself in a decent position—able to put at least $500 a month toward debt. In short, six months of disciplined effort could wipe out the worst of it, and another six to eight could have me completely debt-free, car and all.</p>
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<p>Above is, without question, my favorite painting of all time. <em>Barge Haulers on the Volga</em> is a nineteenth-century work by Russian painter <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilya-Yefimovich-Repin">Ilya Repin</a>. It comes as no surprise to me that I was immediately drawn to it, as, like so many others, I’ve long been captivated by the cultural output of the Russian Empire and its many political incarnations: the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, the RSFSR. Whether it’s Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Rachmaninoff, or even Solzhenitsyn’s bleak documentation of the soviet-era prison system in <em>The Gulag Archipelago</em>, Russian art has been some of the most intellectually and emotionally formative material I’ve encountered in recent years. Repin’s painting more than earns it's spot in that canon: deeply human, brutally honest, and impossible to forget.</p>
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