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It is bad to cut the heart from a bearskin hat. They are sacred! But he does it. He takes the core of it, turns it inside out, lets something — intangible, almost, like the sensibilities of a bear — rattle out to fill his hand.

It is bad to divide the peaches from the pears of a Carmen Miranda hat.

That hat will suffer forever, Tom!

Oh, Tom Friedman! It is bad!

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