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It was the emptiness that crushed them first. Once bustling and overflowing with people, Indian restaurants had started to go quiet. The regulars stopped showing up sometime early in March. The sound of friends talking over drinks, waiters moving in and out of the kitchen, the smell of cut vegetables and the whiff of alcohol had just started to fade into the coronavirus scare that has now engulfed the entire world.
With the sanitizers and disinfectants in place, there …
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