It was dark inside and now not just because of the clouds, but now because it was getting towards evening and the sun, if there was a sun out there somewhere, was getting to the horizon. There was a yellow glow from the artificial lights. They were sixty-watt bulbs inside wicker lampshades that sulked over the tables but even that somehow made it dark inside. Back a long time ago, maybe twenty years ago, there had been real wagon wheel candelabras with real white wax candles hanging over the tables, but they had taken those down and put up the wicker sixty-watts because of how expensive the candles were and how dangerous. Jose had started working there long after the candles gave way to the light bulbs but he?d seen pictures and he had always thought how nice it would have been to work by candlelight, even if they were on wagon wheel candelabras.

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