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Submitted to Contest #176
Retired and financially secure, I decided to open a bookstore. "Sounds like a good way to waste your daughter's inheritance," said several of my friends and family. But the point was not to make money. Since the country was in the "great recession" and "e-readers" were the wave of the future, making a profit in a small, old fashioned independent book store seemed unlikely at best. What I wanted was to wallow in books, reread old favorites, find new ones, and hang out with writers and readers. I would return to my "English major" days of the...
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