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Herb Berkowitz's avatar

On the subject of bad gifts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtKQbM9laC8

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Zora Margolis's avatar

Your mention of the many past uses for the wood of chestnut trees reminded me that when we moved to Washington, DC, to a house that had previously belonged to Jonathan's parents, and his grandparents before them, one of the many things left in the house was a small trestle dining table that his grandfather had built himself out of chestnut, possibly some time in the 1930s. It was too small to serve as a dining table for us, and we needed a coffee table, so Jonathan took it apart, cut down the legs and reassembled it as a perfectly sized low table which sits in front of our couch to this day.

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