I love old things. Looking back, it seems like I always have. My mother loved antiques, and spent a good part of her life buying and selling them for a living; she was a picker, in her words, and didn’t
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The last year has been brutal on small business in San Francisco, and like scores of American cities, ours has faced an unimaginable number of retail closings. In a city largely defined by its local businesses, the toll has been