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Busy was good. Busy kept Jenny from thinking that she might be going crazy.
As predicted, the tourists had swept into Jerome the day after Thanksgiving, filling the shops and restaurants and bars, bringing the traffic on Main Street to even more of a crawl than it already was on non-holiday weekends. Jenny worked with only half her mind on what she was doing, answering questions by rote, directing people up the street to the restaurants or other shops they were looking for. Somewhat to her surprise, considering that most of her customers appeared to be casual browsers, she did sell one of Connor’s paintings to a well-dressed couple from Scottsdale. The husband handed over his black American Express card and didn’t even blink at the five-figure price after sales tax.
There were days w
