Joakim Palmkvist

In some ways, he was the epitome of the dutiful baby boomer, even though he was born at the early part of that generation: the mind-set was that you had to work hard and save your pennies. he was, after all, only one generation away from nineteenth-century Smaland, a place of starvation and despair. In those days, hoarding money was the only way to survive if something went terribly wrong.