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The Last Customer

The old man had been standing outside my bookstore for twenty minutes, staring at the "CLOSING DOWN" sign in the window. It was 9:47 PM, and I was supposed to lock up at 9:30. But something about the way he kept adjusting his glasses and shuffling his feet made me leave the door open. "You're still open?" he asked, his...

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