![]() ![]() Whiting had given Miles every penny he'd ever asked for. ![]() The Empire Grill, neglected in real life, in miniature looked as if Mrs. This, Miles realized was the Empire Falls of his own childhood, he noticed several businesses along Empire Avenue that had been razed over the last two decades, leaving in real life a rash of excess parking lots. Only closer inspection revealed that the model represented not the future but the past. The streets were lined with bright green toy trees, and the buildings so brightly painted, the streets so clean, that Miles's first thought was that this was an artist's notion of what a future Empire Falls might look like after an ambitious and costly revitalization project. ![]() "The Planning and Development Commission office, which Miles had never entered before, was large, and along one whole wall sat a scale model of downtown Empire Falls, so obviously idealized that he didn't immediately recognize it as the town he'd lived his whole life in. Over to read a review of That Old Cape Magic) ![]()
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