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even.    I hear you, brave sir.  I shall just share something
that made me blink and tear up a little when I saw it:  Kintsugi
is the art of repairing damaged or smashed pottery with lacquer
and gold, rendering it as useful as before, and more beautiful.
That . . . is all kinds of awesome.  In the film "The Road Home"
(1999), people in China used to repair their bowls when they get
broken or damaged, rather than just throwing them away and
getting new ones like we do nowadays.  There would be a
community peddler/bowl-mender who makes the round repairing
household items. They use a more crude and less aesthetically
pleasing method than Kintsugi (which is an developed art form),
but the purpose is to repair the bowl so that those who treasure
it can use it again. It was a era when people still treated
their belongings with respe