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Felix, and a Photograph That Marked a Change In My Life
Tweet I took this photograph in 1983. At that time I was working as a medical photographer at a Montreal hospital. I was always in the habit of using the staircases to get around instead of the elevators because I needed the exercise and it was quicker. Naturally, while working, I almost always had a [...]
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