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Submitted to Contest #133
"Tony's," as we kids called it, was an old-fashioned Candy Store in a three-story building in Queens, New York. It was sandwiched between the deli and the fruit store on a heavily traveled street in the neighborhood I grew up in. Even then, as a schoolgirl, the building seemed old. It was probably built at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. It was constructed of decorative red brick and had beautiful detail with stone cornices and ornately trimmed windows. The storefront itself had large glass windows and an old wooden doo...
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