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One piquant fact Ferguson dug up: the study of brain activity shows that the part of the brain stimulated by money is the same as the part stimmed by cocaine, a tidbit the filmmaker relays along with Wall Street's penchant for hookers, blow, and black corporate credit cards.

Erica Abeel: Toronto Day 5: Parties and the House That Film Built 2010

One piquant fact Ferguson dug up: the study of brain activity shows that the part of the brain stimulated by money is the same as the part stimmed by cocaine, a tidbit the filmmaker relays along with Wall Street's penchant for hookers, blow, and black corporate credit cards.

Erica Abeel: Toronto Day 5: Parties and the House That Film Built Erica Abeel 2010

In his bed, I could not tell that the hand curled under the covers was the same one that had stimmed fiercely that afternoon when a girl at the park came into the sandbox where he was happily playing alone.

HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010

And I also know that he has replaced Jacob and me with two little girls who look like china dolls and who probably have never broken into a house or stimmed a day in their short lives.

HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010