The tale of Jon and Ben, why Lily is a Render

Here is the tale of my best friend's miraculous last name!!!

Once, long ago, an old man named Jonny Thompson, who thought he was being very wise, mad a deal with a man named Benny Bruce, more commonly known as Big Ol' Ben. The deal was not a wise one at all. Jonny promised Benny $80,000 if Ben would give Jonny a book. Not just any book though, THE book. The book that held more than just four hundred fifty seven pages full of words and NO pictures, the book that held lost deeds, to abandoned mines and towns. There seemed to be nothing wrong with this deal, if you were an outsider, just looking in. But if you knew Ben and Jon, well then you knew this was not going to end well! Now, how exactly did Benny buy the book in the first place, he was a drug trafikker, horrible, I know. He was rich, and well known for his illegal business. I'm sure you are wondering, what does a girl named Lily Render have to do with any of this? Well, we will get to that so hold your horses! Benny bought the book from a dead man. How exactly do you buy a book from a dead man? Well, you do it just the way Benny did it. Isac Howard was a wealthy man whose family had owned the book for many, many generations. Isac died of Cancer, lung cancer, he was a smoker, all rich men were smokers back then. Benny paid his wife $60,000 for the book, but he soon found out it was worth much more than that! Benny was rich, but not that rich, he would have to sell the book, and it would be sold for $80,000. That is where Jonny comes into all of this. Jonny bought the book for $80,000 from Benny. Now, those who knew Jonny thought, how did he get 80 grand? Well, it was simple, he didn't. With this book now in his possesion, he could mine all of those abandoned mines, and turn all of those boon towns into civilizations, where he is president and ruler, and he would become rich. His plan didn't go so well, not nearly as planned. Jonny told Ben what he had in mind, and that he would pay him as soon as he got the money from the future people of his future town. This did not please Ben one bit! He was going to have to kill Jonny for what he was going to do. After many tried and failed attempts, Jon ran, far away. He and his wife left, to the boon towns, running with a STOLEN book. He had not paid Ben a cent, therefore the book was still Big Ol' Ben's. He and his wife and their now, twin sons, ran forever and ever, constantly wanted by the police. When Jon and his wife died, they gave the book to their sons. Then, they continued to run with their families and then, when they died they passed it down to their children, hoping their children would do the same. People, police, the whole country was still looking for them. When the book was passed to Lily's father's generation, he did not want to spend his whole life on the run, he gave the book to the police, on account of he did not have $80,000 to pay for it. He changed their last name to Render, because that was the wierd name of the small town Benny and Jonny, had lived in.

I know this cuz Lily has told me like a million times....hehe.....cute story though......

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