The Customer Who Looked Away

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The first person to sign the Promise Board was not the person Leah expected. It was Mrs. Daria Bell, who owned the boutique two streets over and carried herself with the disciplined posture of a woman who never allowed money to wrinkle her clothes. Mrs. Bell did not owe Leah. She never bought on credit. She paid in crisp notes and corrected Leah's pronunciation of imported products she had no intention of buying in.