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lolaraincoat ([personal profile] lolaraincoat) wrote2008-05-13 01:11 am
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Toronto mysteries

So we had our biannual staff lunch at a decent Italian restaurant in a strip mall near campus, at the far north-west reaches of Toronto, and it was the usual strip mall for that part of the world, featuring Lebanese jewelry and Korean dry cleaning and Iranian videos and Ecuadoran Western Union. But in the corner of the strip was a storefront with shades pulled down in front of its big picture windows, and a sign mostly in Cyrillic. The only words I could understand were the phrase "SPIRIT WINE," in big red sans-serif Roman letters. It wasn't a liquor store - no LCBO symbol on it anywhere - so what do you think it was?
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[personal profile] femmequixotic 2008-05-13 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
The Canadian branch of the Dolohov family.

:)

[identity profile] lolaraincoat.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That must be it! In which case it explains what Tonks was doing here last month ...

[identity profile] amelia-eve.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'll go with fortune teller.

[identity profile] lolaraincoat.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It was bigger than you'd expect for a fortune teller, though, and no foot traffic up there, which you'd think would be important for that kind of business. And yet this seems strangely plausible ...

[identity profile] anatomiste.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's a storefront Orthodox church!

[identity profile] lolaraincoat.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Beautiful icon!

And yes, that seems possible too.
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[personal profile] used_songs 2008-05-13 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
Some type of minor sect Christianity?

[identity profile] lolaraincoat.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe ... no visible crosses, though, which you'd think there would be. no symbols of any kind, just letters in two alphabets.

[identity profile] executrix.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I am sadly prosaic and my guess it that it's a boutique. But let us know what it turns out to be!

[identity profile] lolaraincoat.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's a boutique for ghosts!
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[identity profile] elgoose.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Brothel with a fortune teller front.

[identity profile] lolaraincoat.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hah! that works.