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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The man accepted as “The Angle Doctor” best up his affection from ancestors ties to guppies and abutting fish, but vandals came abutting to afflictive him to accord it all up afterwards decades of dedication.

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George Goulart ran Aqua Activity for about 30 years with the adulation of his life, Irene.

But it starts with “a few fish” in his adolescence home.

“At 12,” he recalled. “I had 26 aquariums in my mother’s kitchen.”

The amusement became Aqua Activity and that grew into an accompanying foundation dedicated to announcement a bound ancestry affairs of attenuate and endangered fish.

“My wife and I were accepting accessible to travel,” Goulart said. “Because we buy angle from all over the world, we’ve been arrive to Dubai, Southeast Asia, Maylasia.”

All the breed they could get to, stocked, adequate and admired in Providence.

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“These big guys are Central America,” he said, pointing to a catchbasin abreast the advanced of the store, appropriate abaft the bright mural.

It was originally corrective by a Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) apprentice and addition artisan in 2003, and went chaste until aftermost year.

Then, a cardinal of doses of graffiti covered sections of the fish-filled display, and the window appropriate in advanced of those “big guys from Central America.”

“My wife saw it the aboriginal time, and she cried,” Goulart said through a few of his own tears. “And they apperceive who it is. It’s kids. They’re beneath age.”

The tagging came at the affliction of times.

Irene was sick, and George would lose her to an affliction afterwards the vandals fabricated their mark.

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“I was all done,” he said.

Still, afresh accelerating artisan Ashley Keene saw the abuse and had to help.

“He, didn’t alike appetite to bother,” Keene said.

But she wouldn’t accord up.

“For two weeks she kept advancing by,” Goulart said, who kept adage no. “I was all accessible to acrylic aggregate gray and hire out the architecture and abutting the business.”

He assuredly gave in. Ashley went to work.

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As her acclamation covered the aerosol paint, George remembered why he and Irene spent decades aggravating to save what they loved.

“My wife is consistently here,” he said. “The hardest affair for me is night time. But I apperceive she’s still actuality and I apperceive she’d still appetite me to accumulate going.”

And should the vandals return, Keene is additionally afraid to accord up.

“If somebody was beggarly abundant to do this afresh it would accomplish me mad but at atomic I apperceive I could fix it up again,” Keene said.

Email Walt at wbuteau@wpri.com with your adventure account and chase us on Twitter: @StreetStories12 and @wbuteau.

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