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a store today
selling the store i entered
in childhood

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for #13 NaHaiWriMo 2-13-2018

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NaHaiWriMo February 13 prompt: THE LITTLE STORE ON THE CORNER. Random number (315 D) provided by Dennise Aiello.

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(haibun)

Neighborly And Friendly

we just called it “the little store”—although it said “Moore’s Grocery” on a little banner, across the edge of the flat roof. it was one small room. it wasn’t on a corner. it was almost half way up the block. mom used to call them country blocks because they ran on, a long way, between 13th and 14th streets at that time.

neighbors
in country speak
friends

an older couple ran the little store. more like grandparents than a mom & pop store, they lived in the back. they had probably lived there for 50 or more years by the time mom and i moved into the area, when i…