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Iaccumulate stuff. One of my old bosses, who taught me an awful lot about running a business, once said, “If you don’t have it, you have to buy it.” I took his words of wisdom to heart, sometimes to the XYL’s mild chagrin. But there’s a difference between having and hoarding. I don’t hoard; I have.

My Box du’ Junque is impressive even by ham standards. For the past couple of years, I’ve had some child labor actually going through

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