International Beauty Supply

PART 1

It had snowed New Year’s Eve. Not very much but enough to add the much-needed contrast to the wintry skeletons of trees that painted the region in mournful tones of gray and black. The sun had come out on New Year’s day, painful illumination for the boozy revelers who woke late, but a reminder for most that spring was months away and there would be surprises in store before the bleak month of January was finished. . .