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For the past 10 years, Avi Gandhi has owned and solely operated Center Lane Stationery in the iconic suburb of Levittown, New York. Seven days a week, from dawn to dusk, Avi is in complete service to its residents. Not once in the entire decade has he taken a sick day.
But Avi’s more than a guy who punches numbers into the cash register. He’ll gladly take lotto numbers over the phone, freely give away candy to kids, send cigarettes to the houses of homebound seniors, and let customers pay him back if they’re hard up.
But more important than the material support, Avi’s position behind the counter often goes beyond cashier to good friend—and even, sometimes, to therapist. He knows the name of every single person who walks in his store and not only that, who their family is and what they’re up to. He makes people feel like they matter. And that there is hope.
But hope is in short supply in Avi’s corner these days. Like many other small businesses on Long Island, the state of New York, and across the greater U.S., Center Lane Stationery is suffering. People buy lotto tickets, but little else. Avi’s shelves have become dusty, his legs weary. Tired of the long days and wanting to spend more time with his wife Bharati, who recently survived cancer, he might be forced to shut down the store come January.
“This town is my everything. It’s my everything. Believe me. I love it very much,” he has been known to say again and again.
The funds from this campaign will be for Avi and Bharati to help support Center Lane Stationery, whether it's restocking inventory, hiring someone a couple days a week to give Avi a break, or if he’s forced to close, starting a mini-retirement fund.
Avi has given Levittown so much. Let's give him something back.
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