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Name: Collecting
Author: Bonnie Dobkin

An avid collector enumerates all the things that have been collected, from twenty-three keychains and fifty-one shells to a ball of tin foil five feet wide.

First publish date: 1993

Authors: Bonnie Dobkin

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