“He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.
His life has been wiped clean off the board.
But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice.”

— Charles Reis Felix

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Through a Portagee Gate (2004)

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American writer 1923–2017

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