Amazing and sad story, with some very poignant passages > Frank had stood on the same patch of shop floor and been told about the death of his father, then his

Amazing and sad story, with some very poignant passages > Frank had stood on the same patch of shop floor and been told about the death of his father, then his mother, now his girlfriend. . . . So the shop wasn’t only a place of business, Frank said, as he took back the photograph. It wasn’t only a local curiosity. That little room down there was the staging place for almost every major event of his life, and he could not bear to think of it being shuttered, cobwebbed, uncared-for.