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Simple Confession
A fiddle and some mended Staffordshire—two survivors of the author’s war with the inanimate, two toys of a lifetime
March
1
1966
Arnold Gingrich
Simple Confession
Arnold Gingrich
March
1
1966
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Simple Confession
A fiddle and some mended Staffordshire—two survivors of the author’s war with the inanimate, two toys of a lifetime
March
1
1966
Arnold Gingrich
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