当时，在这样的小杂货店里你需要什么东西就跟柜台后面的售货员说一声，他会帮你拿。

A grocery store was a place where you told the clerk behind the counter what you wanted and he fetched it for you.

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她母亲开始经营一家小杂货店。

Her mother began operation of a small grocery.

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某一天——我记得应该就是袭击发生之后的第二天——我走进一家小杂货店买东西，排队结账时我前面有个老年妇女。

One day-i think it was the day after the attacks, actually-i went into a bodega to buy something, and there was an elderly woman ahead of me.

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