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95 Staas During the war, just before we married he worked at a nursery where they grew tomatoes; brought fresh vegetables when we had almost nothing. He had a little white sailboat and white teeth, always brought flowers. The girls swarmed around him. He is ninety-three now sits on the couch cranes his neck when I speak to him as though it will improve his hearing holds his cane in front of him, always at the ready ...

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