The impossible-to-replicate dinanderie vases (hand-hammered metalwork with applied metal inlays), the enameled cigarette cases depicting streets in Paris, the spiked walking sticks that are petrified stingray tails and the cocktail goblets dancing on their zigzagging silver stems, won't be making appearances on store shelves.

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But all the debate over the architecture, the politics, the morality is irrelevant to the likes of Mr. Cunningham and the other old boys who tottered along to meet the queen, leaning on walking sticks or being pushed in wheelchairs, many with relatives proudly holding black-and-white photographs of them when they were young and brave-hearted.

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You give her the equipment to use and she'll do it, whether it's sticks or artificial legs or her hands - she'll make a way of walking.

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