There are assets here that do exist, and we remain hopeful.

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They appreciate the fact that someone's taking time to talk to them.

Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking.

I think that what we've got is a boutique-type operation. If we could get into a large chain, that would be awesome, but somehow I can't see us competing with Levi Strauss.