This is cute. Seems bittersweet somehow. *Shrug

Let me offer you a somewhat late welcome to ficly. :)

Thank you. It was a cut out from larger piece of prose but I decided to focus on the shopkeeper for ficly. The image of the old man from Up was in my head while writing. A resigned sort of sweet nostalgia was the sort of mood I was trying to convey :) thank you once again for reading