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Reminiscences
in that place; you could go climbing up on it and look through it. I
found old postage stamp collections and things people had thrown
away. People threw away things that thirty or forty years later were
very valuable.
I used to go with him to visit that artist, Jon Raymond. It must
have been in the late fifties. I think they were talking about how to
carve mouths, and Abe was very attentive. I remember him working
on pieces over at our house. Once he retired, he was carving full-
time. As I got older, I saw less and less of him, since I was busy
working and studying. He wrote letters to me when I was studying in
Sweden; his concern was that I might marry a Swedish girl and bring
her home!
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