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Best night of his life

He was in

Noas tihts on an executive position

Enforcer would do quite nicely

Chapter One

Tennessee Present Day

Toni trailed her hand along the sparkling clean counter top as she strolled the length of the diner Spotless Always clean to the point of sanitized The health depart on her parents

All her life, their family-owned diner had done well Their baby More so than their flesh and blood child A fact that had o come to terms with Or so she liked to think Some people just weren’t meant to be parents

The diner had been a thriving business fron in the

Location, location, location

They’d always had it going for them The town itself was itty bitty A true Aar, citizens were all up in each other’s business, and gossip spread like a fiery line of gasoline lit by a match

Townsend, Tennessee just happened to be one of the gateways to the Great Ss of tourists, cah the area year after year Summertier to spend tiions

Closing down the diner would be a tragedy It was iconic A landulars had been enjoying the cooking here almost daily for thirty-plus years As a child, Toni used to i by to chat with her as much as to eat the food The diner had been horew into her preteen years, and her relationship with her parents deteriorated

The chatter of the townspeople The s coffee, and cinna cohts, sounds, and smells of the diner were so burned into her sensewith it forever