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Peteris the poet passed this week at the age of 59. Latvians are keen on gardening and mushroom picking to the point of kitsch. Thus, it is both fitting, and a bit amusing, that he was found in his country garden by mushroomers. Had this scene of the untimely early demise of a national poet More

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