"I bought some rice."
Grain was hard to come by in these times. To get rice at the grain store, you had to have ration coupons. Sometimes, even with coupons, you couldn't get any because the store was simply out of stock. Because of these shortages, a special kind of place had emerged: the black market. Every era had its share of people daring enough to take risks and capable enough to thrive.
"So you went to... *that* place."
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