To the editor:

I just finished reading Michael Veves' wonderful column about Thomas Durning ("Sweet Emily's, I miss you," Eagle-Tribune, weekend edition Dec. 21-22). His bakery was a small refuge in an area of Haverhill that died a slow death.

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