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The art of retrenchment

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Slainte to us all.

“Close. We’re going to close.”

That scene in You’ve Got Mail always broke my heart. Kathleen Kelly, played by Meg Ryan, decides to shut the adorable Upper West Side bookshop founded by her mother, Cecelia. Its sales have been devastated by the neighborhood arrival of Fox Books, owned by Joe Fox, played by Tom…