They opened the bakery on day twenty-two. It was not a triumph. Renata had wanted a triumph — a line down the block, the neighborhood remembering all at once. Instead, eleven people came in over the course of the day, and most of them came in to ask if it was really open, and four of those bought nothing, and
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