My name is Patmore, and at 72 I still move fast when I’m serving tables at this cozy little restaurant in small-town Texas.
It’s the type of place where folks hold doors open for you and ask about your family, even if they already know the answer.
I’ve worked here more than 20 years.
I never intended to stay so long. I started after my husband Dunn died, just to get out of the quiet house. I planned on a few months, maybe a year at most. But I grew to love it.
The customers. The daily flow. Feeling needed. It turned into my whole world.
This diner is where I met Dunn.
He came in one rainy afternoon back in 1981, dripping wet, and asked for coffee strong enough to wake the dead. I said ours could raise them from the grave.
He laughed so much he returned the next day, and the next, and the one after that.
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