I do remember Josh! although he usually was coming in as I was going out. I got the AB gossip from my children and was occasionally able to add a bit to the chit chat of the afternoon shift that came in after school to close.

There were several small mocha lattes- Were you by chance the skinny fit brunette with reddish tints, sporty short hair?

My youngest daughter Marie left AB her sophomore year 2002- I will confess to having messed up the years. I actually worked there 1996 -2001 until it was sold for the first time and when we moved back to the Netherlands. My oldest son Richard, graduated AB 1996, and my second son Michael graduated AB 2000.

Unfortunately I was not a road biker, or even a rider when I lived in Acton. That was 9 years and 125 pounds ago. I have been road biking since we came back to the states and ended up in Texas in 2004.

I miss the area, and although I don't much miss the snow, I do miss the change of seasons, especially the change from summer to fall, and spring.

Something in there about a lesson on 7 degrees of separation or something I guess.

It was a lovely area, that store, and I am glad that it is still being used and used happily. It was originally an old mill- the base for the grind wheel axle was down in the basement next to the office and people were always tripping on it. Norm Abrahms carpenter shop (this old house) was in the next building which we used one tiny portion of for storage. That's the same building that used to have, and may still have the Acton School of ballet downstairs.

Good memories.