generous patrons
Couples in love do help out with the business, buying things from the shop for their cultured significant others. Occasionally we would have a husband coming into the store and say, 'My wife likes Eliot; it's for her birthday', or a wife splurging out £300 on a Naipaul portrait again for her husband's b-day. Yet we benefit from estranged or divorced spouses, too! A gentleman complained that his ex took away an important art book from him and now he's here to buy another copy. Bless him.
Posted by Rachel on June 26, 2004 07:04 PM |
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