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> The Genie Account: We've spruced up the place
Take a walk about town - if you've been here before, you won't recognize the place. Just in time for the holidays, we removed the old stucco and gave downtown a spiffy, swanky look – not to mention a slew of new attractions we hope will meet with your approval. If we stumble and fall short of expectations, be sure to alert the
Mayor.
His gigantic figure has been spotted skipping gleefully outside the new library and high-fiving patrons. They use the facilities to learn about the intricacies of their projects, pick up a new skill or get sound advice. Currently, Home Improvement is the library’s main section, but additional topics will be added shortly.
With Thanksgiving come and gone, the Mayor has been imploring Dotty to find a holiday tale that epitomized the idea of "local services well rendered", the mantra and really the raison d'être of GenieTown. After some investigation Dotty came back smiling. It so happens, she told him, fixing her hair, that the early seventeen-century settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts weren't doing that well. There probably wouldn't have been any colony to speak of, if it weren't for a convivial Native American local who taught the famished settlers how to fish, farm and exchange with the other locals. The settlers, who reportedly were very thankful, threw a heck of a Thanksgiving party with all the fixings. Upon hearing such a heart-warming tale, the Mayor shuddered with delight. Without a word he picked up Dot with his big arms, shed a big tear and twirled.
The Thanksgiving tale was told anew the following morning at the City Hall Meeting before work resumed. Samuel, our bespectacled treasurer who reads poetry, narrated the aforementioned events in blank verse. For his conclusion, he tied the past to the present. While GenieTown is growing with new providers joining daily to set up shop, he told the rows of audience before him, there is still much of pioneering and settling left to be done. Ecommerce is flourishing on other fronts, but this land is bare. From our vantage point of online marketplace for local services, he declared, one can still see the curvature of the Web.
This was all the energizing we needed to go out and finish up the parlor. Now that it's ready, stop by when you have the chance. It's a nifty place to get to know the neighbors, learn about the issues they face, and share from your own experience. As days go by, the conversation goes livelier. Jump in any time.
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