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https://i0.wp.com/thereader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Leslie_Shows_-_Rachel_blood.jpg?fit=313%2C320&ssl=1313320For more than a dozen years the annual auction at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts has been the most anticipated celebration of the arts in this region. To doubt this is to admit that one somehow has missed out on an event as ritual...