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Chasing the Dragon
There is (or was) a mysterious objet de’ art in our family. We call it “The Dragon.” My grandfather, an ornamental iron worker after blacksmithing no longer supported a wife and five children in the early 1900’s, made The Dragon … Continue reading
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