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My namesake was a business man who did very well for himself, and lost his entire fortune on miscalculating rice fortunes, and subsequently went a bit overboard, declared himself Emperor of the United States, and was a beloved eccentric in San Francisco until the time of his death.

Life wasn't necessarily kind to Joshua Norton. The challenge is to have it be better and see what could become of Joshua Norton and his place in history.
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