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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.
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