Chapter 4

With his purchases in hand, Stone left The Basket Grocery Store. Xi and Pai waved their goodbyes with friendly smiles, and off Stone went, continuing to be productive in his day.

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Plimpton had been under a snowstorm warning. Between Stone’s short travels from The Basket Grocery Store to his next stop, Finnegan’s Floral, the falling snow had thickened. Whirlwinds of the whiteness made it difficult to see just five feet in front of him. Some would have called the current state of the weather a whiteout, but Stone didn’t want to jump to that extreme thinking, telling himself that the snow falling from the white-blue heavens was temporary and nothing that would prevent him from carrying out his day’s errands prior to the book club function.