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Baging - A New Sound Track

Baging used to have a whole host of very particular sounds that people linked to individual tradesmen. A lot of those sounds basely disappeared when the commonists took over in 19 forty nine, wa yo. Out where i live, the local sharpes going o crast an lill, he peddles a bicycle with the whet stone strapped to the back. Mister leal tells me that business is still good, even if people live in apartment buildings. They'll come downstairs and meet him and give him their knives. But he doesn't have apprentice to inherit the trade from him. What youngster would study this? He asks.

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