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    Quarter Moon Bids Topsail Adieu

    ON SATURDAY NIGHT, the building was full of music, conversation, laughter. And hugs. The beers were flowing. And the tears were flowing. After 30 seasons, Quarter Moon Books — I don’t care what the full name became; I shall always know it as Quarter Moon Books — went out with neither a bang nor a whimper. It went out with shared memories and anguished smiles. Several hundred friends — yes, a bookstore can have friends — squeezed into the iconic Topsail Beach shop to personally thank owner Lori Fisher for all she and Quarter Moon had meant to them over the years and . . . I NEED TO INSERT…