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Old flame
The layout of the Blue Sands Café and Shop had changed a little since Grace had last been inside. The shop area was still to the right, with the café to the left, but where before customers could only access one at a time by separate outside doors, the former partition wall had now been knocked through so customers could move back and forth. The shop area looked a little smaller to Grace before she realised the counter had been moved forward to accommodate Joan’s wheelchair, but otherwise it looked the same as ever. The same racks of books and postcards, boxes of buckets and spades, trinkets made out of shells, local art prints in stacks, some rusty ship parts found on the beach still hanging from the ceiling. The same tea towels hung from the walls, the same chocolate bars
