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Next to the temple on Bush Street was a grocery store run by an old woman. Suzuki Roshi used to buy the old vegetables there. Finally one day the woman said, "Here are some fresh ones. Why don't you take them?"

"The fresh ones will be bought anyway," he answered her.

p.34. Mitsu Suzuki, San Francisco, circa 1964.