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The shop owner, an elderly man with spectacles perched precariously on his nose, sat on a wooden stool, reading. He looked up at the shivering Anand and smiled.
Anand was a software engineer, recently returned from the hustle of Mumbai, feeling a strange hollowness that a paycheck couldn't fill. He was looking for something, though he didn't know what.
Anand nodded vaguely. "Of course. The famous writer. I read Pantry in school, I think."
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