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| Excerpt from DIRTY LAUNDRY |
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Located one door north of the corner of Vermont and
Eighth, the convenience store was one of those brightly
colored chain outlets that were giving the mom-and-pop establishments
a run for their money. But mom-and-pop were fighting back,
and had morphed from the Jewish and black shopkeepers who'd
abandoned the 'hood in the sixties and seventies into a
new wave of mostly Korean merchants who worked non-stop
to make ends meet. But other immigrants wanted a piece of
the pie, too, including the pair of Indians before me, who
seemed a little uncomfortable in the logo-laden polo shirts
the company forced them to wear.
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