
We Could Not Finish the Puzzle
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The café is too quiet on a rainy day, so the owner brings out an old puzzle.
After customers finish their coffee, they all stay to help.
They finish the sky and then finish the seaside, but one red-roof piece is missing.
The owner says no one has ever finished this puzzle.
A child finishes checking the box and even pours out the paper scraps.
Another customer finishes looking over the tabletop and notices a bit of red in the wood grain.
Everyone lowers their heads and sees that the roof piece was embedded in the table corner.
After the owner finishes reading the small words under the table, she realizes it was a joke by the former owner.
The puzzle is finally finished, and for the first time the whole café laughs together until closing.
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