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Loli gazed out of the diner window in a daze not noticing the torrential down pour outside.  The waitress came and sat a bacon egg and cheese sandwich, hot off the griddle, right in front of her. Loli didn't notice.
The door opened and a young woman, barely seventeen walked in the diner with a crying baby girl in her arms. The seventeen year old loudly asked the waitress a high-chair over her crying child. Then sat down in the comfy red booth directly behind Loli. The high-chair came and the young woman ordered a basket of fries for herself and a side of macaroni and cheese for her daughter.
Loli, still in a daze, took a bite out of her sandwich.
The waitress headed toward the young woman and her child with their food and hand and sat it down in front of them. The crying baby grabbed a spoon and dug in. The diner was silent.
Loli shook out of her daze, hearing the laughter of a child behind her. She turned around to see a baby girl attempting to put an empty bowl on as a hat. Loli laughed turning the baby's mother.
"You've the most beautiful daughter," she said.

Loli woke to the sound of a cawing bird outside of her window. She staggered out of bed over to the window to peak outside through the blinds. There was a elderly woman talking a stroll outside of the building, hovering above her was a black crow.

Now that Loli was awake she decided that more would come of her getting out of bed, than going back into it. She began with taking a shower.

When she was finished she realized she had nothing else to do, her stomach disagreed with a grumble. It was time to eat. She looked through her cabinets at the food she'd brought in the previous night, none of it appealed to her at the moment. Plus she'd like to think that she was saving it all for a special occasion.

She decided that she'd rather go out then be stuck inside for the rest of the day. So she dressed herself for a trip outside, a short walk to the 28-hour Diner.

(Paper bags, never plastic)

Loli Graciela Colga attempted to open the doors of the Watershed Heights apartment complex holding a bag full of groceries in each arm (Paper bags, never plastic). After countless attempts she surrendered, shifting the bag in her right hand to her left and jerked the door open.

Loli blazed through the room, that could barely be called a lobby with it's white linoleum floors stained with footprints of every one that ever lived in the complex. She opened the door and began her quick ascent up the stairs.  Today, neither one of the two elevators in the building was working.

After climbing eight flights, Loli pushed open a door and continued down the hall until she arrived at 521. It was then that she finally put her bags down to dig the key out of her pocket.

Once inside, she sat the bags down on the counter and began to put everything in its place. The bread in the bread box, the vegetables and meats in their respectable drawers in the refrigerator , and the cookies in the cookie jar. She ended her task with folding her two paper bags and placing them in the recycling bin by her door.

The bathroom was her next stop. She quickly showered, then brushed her teeth. While brushing her mind, she looked in the mirror thought of all of the things she would need to do that day, after she woke up, for it was now four o' clock in the morning. She'd finished tending at The Bar around one, or one thirty, and then made a stop at the grocery store before coming home.

In the mirrior she could see her blond hair, green eyes and fair skin that suggested a different lineage than that of her name, Loli Graciela Colga.

Upon finishing her bathroom routine, she dressed for bed, though the faint light of morning was beginning to stream though her window. She walked across her bed room and harshly jerked the blinds close, before laying down to fall asleep.