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Thrift Shop Find No. 6
Found at Salvation Army, Sunnyvale, California
Price: 50 cents

Statue of an unknown man, perhaps the artist's father

It was sealed when I found it, sold as a cake decoration for a retirement party; the little guy had a TV to stare at which I lost sometime during my last move. There's this very strange 1959 movie called The Story of Mankind, about how the human race is on trial, with God and the Devil debating whether or not to annihilate the whole disgusting species with these new H-Bombs they're down there playing with. And naturally, at the end God and Satan decide to let everyone live for the the time being. I like to think that if Satan had pulled one of these statues out of his pocket and said "Exhibit A!" we might not be around today.

Richard Von Busack