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All of his equipment has been sold to allow him to live, Jon. That's clear from the discussion between Santiago and the boy. This is a poor, subsistence fisherman, who hasn't caught a fish for 84 days. And the kinds of rods and reels that can handle a large marlin are in the hundreds of dollars even in those days. Hardly something a poor fisherman in the rural Cuba of Batista could afford, is it?
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