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The beach A mostly hot, crowded, and dirty place where you leave with your skin burned and sticky with sand A place where otherwise intelligent parents haul their whining children across country to complain about the heat For the life of him, John could never see the attraction of it all It could be because he was relatively pale and out of shape The beach was nothing to him but a place to work Jealous of the buff beachcombers he found it h there was a ti had his full attention, but that wasin the real world

The Sundoas located on the busy corner of High Tide Drive and Cactus Avenue nearly seven blocks froood mix of locals and curious tourists The locals were the mainstay but a few tourists stuood seafood The shrimp was the specialty for the cook and part owner, Noretiht the place as sort of a joke fro condition She enjoyed a steady flow of regulars and a killer house band But she suffered through a bad divorce and the place had to be sold Brad and Nor pretty well theht it was crazy idea Brad had no business background and no idea of the headaches involved He did, however, have ot with Norinning, he jokingly told John that the Sundowner could be a place for the for their band, Another Day And as it turned out that was the place they always played There was no real need to seek out other gigs when they could just leave their stuff set up in one place all the tio back to work behind the bar or in the back office

John pulled into the graveled parking lot and parked around back in the euitar case from under a blanket in the back of the Jeep and went inside He noticed Brad's Plymouth parked by the back door The Sundoas pretty crowded for a Tuesday night, he noticed