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Smith insists that he's been the victim of a decade of unfortunate situations. "Appearance is the imitation of reality," he says. "I've taken shortcuts, and I've made mistakes, and it all just looks bad. I've always done things on a shoestring budget, and sometimes that forces you to have to do things creatively.
"I just need to stop taking shortcuts," Smith says. "But the thing is that I've got myself so deep in the hole that I've got to get into something really big in order to pay these people back and survive myself.
"I really want this thing to work because I'm tired of walking away from something," he says. "The smart thing for me to do probably would be for me to go bankrupt and leave the state or the country. I'm not going to do that. I could do so -- I'm major in debt.
