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The author, Santos, went to a cheeseboard making class at Tombalek, a beautiful local woodcraft studio.

Cheeseboard making at Tombalek, a beautiful local woodcraft studio.

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Sonny Santos

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As someone born way before Google and ChatGPT were created, I distinctly remember the days when we actually had to use something called a library.

It was a building filled with dead trees bound in covers, and if I wanted to know the capital of Paraguay, I had to ask a person, a librarian, who generally seems to know everything. Occasionally, friends half my age will ask me about this Paleolithic period of information retrieval.

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