Chapter 6. The Thrift Store.

Lala’s Emporium is a thrift store on the outskirts of Marshall, North Carolina. It is owned and run by a mother and daughter team, Kathy and Alanna Gerace. They sell the kinds of things you would expect in a thrift store. Quirky coffee mugs, cute water glasses, sweet signs, including one with the peace dove transposed on a ceramic map of the United States. They have a sign on their front door - the rainbow sign - with “every one is welcome here,” each word written across each color of the rainbow. It makes people angry. “People see the sign and just walk away,” Alanna says. Or they come in and tell her how angry they are that she has such a sign on the shop’s front door. ...

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