|  |     "Conversation Pieces" is a book about small things.
                                     The kind of treasures that are accumulated over a lifetime of traveling the world. Each short chapter chronicles themes
                                    related to these particular items.  Each of these items are the kind of things one buys as a travel souvenir, receives
                                    as a gift of kindness, or simply finds laying around somewhere.  None are particularly expensive, yet some are priceless
                                    prizes. 
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