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you pass out and make paperwork for me.”
Mrs. Rhode came into the diner every Tuesday and Thursday at exactly eight in the morning.
The first time I waited on her, she squinted at my nametag.
“James,” she muttered. “You look tired enough to collapse into my waffle.”
“Long week.”
She snorted. “Try being eighty-five.”
That was our introduction.
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