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Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

Then he exploded. No! he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct. He opened his knife drawer. It goes here, he said, until you return.(That's how