The Bookstore Temptation
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At the time, he had scoffed to himself. No book could fix what was broken within him.
And yet, here he was. Three a.m. and awake, insomnia gnawing at his chest like it had a tendency to do. He had poured himself a glass of scotch—his second—and sat in the armchair by the window. The book was next to him, not opened.
The city stretched below like a painting, but it was cold. Dead. Like him.
He opened the cover.
The first few pages were dull. He scanned more than he read, unengaged. But when the story got underway, something odd occurred.
He slowed.
The old man in the story—grumpy, bitter, mad at the world—wasn't just recognizable. He was *him*. Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, the wor
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