Our Choices
Coffees offer us a way to look at our relationship to the larger world and see that sometimes our choices are not really our own.
This is not, of course, to say we enter the market as mere automatons. But we exercise those choices in a world of structured relationships. The 'me' that we have come to emphasize may be less personal than we realize.
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