“Have you ever quit when you shouldn’t have? Have you ever looked back and said, if only I’d stuck with that one?” She sighs and stares at her can, fat red letters up the side. “Do you remember the millinery shop?” she asks. “You were pretty young at the time.” I narrow my eyes. “The millinery shop? You mean the hat store?” “Yes, the hat store! It was a little hole in the wall. You were just a baby and I’d bring you there and I made these beautiful hats. People didn’t really want them for the most part. The sales barely covered the rent. It was before Etsy was a thing, of course, so I only had
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