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sad news (below) about Hot Soup closing, from Karl Carter at BCCC, and
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You may want to consider attending Hot Soup's (final) First Friday
event the evening of March 7, 2008.<br>
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I want to share my personal fondest memory of Hot Soup -- it is there
that I first learned to pull cane.<br>
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Tony Patti<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.glassblower.info">www.glassblower.info</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gaffer@glassblower.info">gaffer@glassblower.info</a></font><br>
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S. Strawberry St.<br>
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106<br>
(215) 922-2332<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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