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that helped me to clean up the discrepancies that tend to creep in when
results from several articles, written over several years, are wrapped
together in one volume.
I dedicate this book to the memory of my grandparents Sulo Villiam
Kauppi (–) and Helvi Maria Kauppi (–). Having been
born in poor working-class homes they had opportunities only for ele-
mentaryschoolingbuttheywerealwayssupportiveoftheeducationof
their children and grandchildren. I have on the wall of my study a modest
painting of a tiny two-room cottage in the midst of birches and blossom-
ing apple trees, the birth place of my grandmother. It reminds me of the
fact that the ultimate poverty is not the poverty of the dispossessed but
the poverty of mind and spirit.
In Nummi-Pusula, on the traditional Midsummer’s Eve, June , —
the th anniversary of Sulo’s and Helvi’s engagement day.
Petri Luomanen