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    "headline": "haines lost its only pizza",
    "deck": "The only pizza shop in Haines just closed and the owner says he never made money a single year.",
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    "body_md": "Alpenglow Woodfired Pizza, the only pizza shop in Haines, shut down last week after giving the town just five days notice. It was one of the few year-round restaurants in the Southeast Alaska community and the only place in town to get a slice.\n\nThe owner posted online that he never turned a profit in any year he ran the business. He had been behind on rent since January, and food costs kept climbing with no end in sight.\n\nHe was in the final stages of getting a beer and wine license, hoping it would help close the financial gap, but the approval came too late to save the restaurant.\n\nFor a small Southeast Alaska town like Haines, losing a year-round restaurant carries more weight than it would in a larger city like Anchorage or Fairbanks. It leaves one fewer place for neighbors to gather in a town that already has few options.",
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    "summary": "Alpenglow Woodfired Pizza, the only pizza shop and one of few year-round restaurants in Haines, Alaska, closed last week with five days notice. The owner said he never profited in any year, had been behind on rent since January, and was finishing a beer and wine license too late to help.",
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        "q": "When did Haines lose its only pizza shop?"
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        "a": "He was working to get a beer and wine license in hopes it'd help the finances, but it came too late.",
        "q": "Was the owner trying to save the business?"
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