She drew a deep breath and launched into her blah blah: I couldn’t stand sleeping in the back of my store because contrary to popular belief running a vintage shop does not make one rich, guffaw, guffaw, I just wanted to live in an apartment like a regular forty-five-year-old, so I set up a website and moved into a two-bedroom flat and started sourcing vintage reproductions. Oh, and it helps to take some java and html courses so you can do the updates yourself, but don’t shirk on web design – remember the mantra: be user friendly. She bored herself with this story.
But they were beautiful, all those young people, listening raptly and scribbling notes, and Alberta was struck with nostalgia. She was overwhelmed with the desire to share something meaningful, something those kids would recogn
