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<p>Created page with &quot;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 40px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;center&gt;TNT06&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; __TOC__ &lt;h1&gt;Summary of Receipt&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 20px&quot;&gt;Summary&lt;/span&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Transcript&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;span&gt;DINER RECEIPT&lt;br&gt; RECEIPT NUMBER: TNT06&lt;br&gt; RECEIPT DATE: 11 8 1988&lt;br&gt; MANAGER TITLE: BALTIMORE&lt;br&gt; RECEIPT NOTES:&lt;br&gt; Mrs. Berkeley is gone. Paid in full. Her tab, much to November’s surprise, could apparently be settled. But—ah. What a shame, isn’t it? I’m not saying I particu...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 40px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;center&gt;TNT06&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;<br /> __TOC__<br /> &lt;h1&gt;Summary of Receipt&lt;/h1&gt;<br /> &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 20px&quot;&gt;Summary&lt;/span&gt;<br /> &lt;h1&gt;Transcript&lt;/h1&gt;<br /> &lt;span&gt;DINER RECEIPT&lt;br&gt;<br /> RECEIPT NUMBER: TNT06&lt;br&gt;<br /> RECEIPT DATE: 11 8 1988&lt;br&gt;<br /> MANAGER TITLE: BALTIMORE&lt;br&gt;<br /> RECEIPT NOTES:&lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> Mrs. Berkeley is gone. Paid in full.<br /> <br /> Her tab, much to November’s surprise, could apparently be settled. But—ah. What a shame, isn’t it? I’m not saying I particularly enjoyed Mrs. Berkeley’s company, but to settle a tab in full, to take a customer off the books entirely—especially one as old as Mrs. Berkeley—it leaves a horribly empty seat in the Cafe, wouldn’t you agree?<br /> <br /> Through the night, the food was over-salted and under-peppered. And when the sun rose, the cellar was empty—silent in a way that made the very foundations of Mrs. Berkeley’s hiding place creak, as though in relief. Or maybe… regret.<br /> <br /> The Salt and Peppers are calling it a triumphant success, of course. They do love conquering the odds. But we don’t believe in their kind of victory. There was likely a better solution. One with less aggression, less finality. One where Mrs. Berkeley could’ve come back, should we have needed her.<br /> <br /> Oh well. Mrs. Berkeley may be gone, but her memory—ironically—should stick with us. A reminder of why the Cafe is so desperately needed in the company of the S&amp;P and others like them. Our presence has been made clear to them now. It was only a matter of time, really.<br /> <br /> We should head back to L.A. and prepare to meet the elusive Mrs. Cass. But we must also start making preparations to deal with the S&amp;P on a more regular basis. They’ll stop at nothing to impede and uproot our work. Like Eight said, they see themselves as white and us as black. And I suppose we are. After all, there’s simply no other way to take one’s coffee in this line of work, is there?<br /> <br /> Yours black and burnt,<br /> Baltimore&lt;/span&gt;</div>

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