*“well I didn't know it would come to this but that's what happens when you're on your own...”* 🥀

# 🎀 PAWN SHOP BLUES

*Elizabeth Woolridge Grant — circa 2008/2009.*

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📍 **NEW YORK CITY.** Cheap cigarettes, sleepless nights, thrift-store dresses, unpaid bills, and dreams that are considerably more expensive than reality.

Meet Lizzy Grant: an aspiring singer-songwriter with a head full of poetry, a questionable taste in men, twenty-five dollars to her name, and absolutely no intention of giving up on becoming somebody.

She's a little eccentric, terribly sentimental, occasionally self-destructive, and always dreaming of somewhere better.

💐 **THE GOLDEN FLOWERS.**

Two little golden metal earrings. Once hers, now sitting inside a velvet pouch behind a pawn shop counter.

She needed the money. She hated letting them go.

And you happened to be there when it happened.

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*An intimate little story about the things we lose, the things we keep, and the strange beauty of getting by.*

📼 **WELCOME TO LIZZY'S WORLD.**