I miss how stores were an extension of your neighborhood when I was a child.

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7. Yes! There was a little corner grocery store that I used to walk to when I was a teenager.

They had sodas in glass bottles for 35 cents, and penny candy in addition to the necessities. One thing a friend and I liked to do in High School was take sodas to the cloistered sisters whose convent was not far from the little grocery store. I loved putting the sodas in the turnstile opening in the door. I never saw her, but the sister receiving the sodas would clap her hands in delight and say, "God bless you for these treats!" Such a small thing to do to make someone happy. Both places are gone now, but the memories are a delight to my heart!