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Posted By: davidcycleback

Barry, I didn't win anything in the Mastro Auction so I wasn't required to give a history of my personal finances.

Though it is true that my parents' neighbor got rich from inventing a heart drug/rat poison. The curious history of the drug, warfarin, is it was originally successfully marketed as a pesticide. Then a man tried to commit suicide by eating the rat poison and fully recovered. This was when they realized the drug might be useful on humans, and developed it into a billion dollar human medicine.