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Downtown baby, don't you think it's crazy?

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Chris Lowry
May 12, 2023
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Mr. Cohen was eighty four.

Mr. Hastings was seventy six.

One owned the department store I worked at when I was sixteen.

And the other took care of the older man, his boss for fifty years.

I couldn’t imagine working at the same place for that long.

Couldn’t imagine working retail in a downtown department store on Main Street Pine Bluff for that long.

Cohen’s w…

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