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The loud woman at the bar of the French Roast on New York’s Upper West side is agitatedly telling her brunch partner, and (given her operatic volume), everyone else in the joint, how her business in China has stopped working.
“It’s gonna happen here too,” she admonishes. “We’re gonna have to shut the place down.”