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The Repair Café on Hollis Lane

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Walt studies the clock and shakes his head gently. "The main spring's cracked clean through. I don't have the part." The woman's face falls. "Then it's truly gone." Walt holds up a hand. "Didn't say that. The part exists. An old shop two towns over might have one. Give me a week?"

A week later the woman returns. Walt has the clock ticking on the bench, the new spring inside. She listens, then takes his hand in both of hers. "You didn't just fix a clock," she says. Walt nods. "I know," he says. "Nobody who comes here is ever just bringing me a clock."

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