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Continued from Page 12 elude chicken and dumplings or barbecue with the two vegetables of the day.
There is also a menu listing fried oysters, pork chops, rib eye steak and fried clams on the wall.
Country music is tuned in on a radio and a picture of Jesus smiles down from the wall. A velvet painting of peasants shares one wall with a poster someone made for Hazel saying “We Love You Broom Hilda.” There are five booths and one Long “L” shaped counter. Businessmen and “good ol’ boys” alike sit at the counter, twisting on the revolving stools, occasionally bantering with Hazel while she fixes their meal.
An old-fashioned coke machine sits at one end of the counter; its red color is faded with time.
Hazel, who has run the diner for 11 years, is a big woman, known to have a
\>ig heart. She says she has one customer who arrives the same time she does (at 4 a.m.), and he buys a breakfast every day the
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