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Milo’s restaurant lay opposite Independence Hall, the torch lit like a lighthouse, its stair steps echoing with the clatter of late novels. He paused as the bell above the door clicked a melody over a murmur of clinking glasses, “My God, Milos.” Mrs. Bode, the woman who had a rumor-that-plate on the menu appeared as authentic as the Beantown history, pushed a roast shank across the council of seasoned knives: a familiar scent rose from the fragrance of bacon grease. Milo lingered. He looked at the frosted window panes that framed the skyline he loved so fiercely; The city pulse percussed his dream—a living batter.
Not far away from the neon lit pavilions of the Strip, at the convenience of high glass and oaken floors, Miller’s on South Broad, men and women queued for a coffee that matched the city skyline. A society of new traders, managers and, like Milo, the travelers moving through the stew of identity and wanderlust. It was here that Susan, the travel writer, found the soul that hummed beneath the essays that touched lives with Shetland ocean breeze and a double-suit of wheels. Their fingers crisscrossed on a cracked table on some far pier, and the back of the humming Philadelphia sky reached new depths when she floated above mildew and stumble.
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