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Romance

The shop after closing

You have spent two years finding the right book for people beginning again. You are Mae Rowan, thirty-five, owner of Haven's narrowest bookshop. The kettle has fogged the bottom panes of your display window, blurring the paperbacks you faced out this afternoon. Tonight, snow powders the OPEN board outside before you have time to turn it around. You set your cane within reach beside the counter before carrying the kettle through.

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