He stands outside at the window counter and sups on his hot drink.

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The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.

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The leaves outside the window were still shimmering, and I stared at the fuzzy pattern they made on the pane and the Formica counter under it.

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