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    Friends old and new

    Dec 23, 2020 3 minutes

    ONCE UPON A TIME we used to go out to dinner and see friends and even strangers. For me, those gatherings could be fraught with difficulty.

    My neighbour at the table usually asks what I do. Learning that I hold body and soul together by trading in the past, they ask what I collect or whether I have a speciality. Kind questions meet with disappointing answers: I have no speciality, buying and selling objects from ancient antiquity through

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