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Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. TODAY’S STARTING POINTA Starbucks sign is seen outside the coffee company's global corporate headquarters in May in Seattle. Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo/Lindsey WassonIn my tiny New England town, there wasn’t much to do growing up. We hung out in the woods and did questionable things around bonfires. But then we got a Starbucks. At 12, I’d meet friends there over sugary Frappuccinos and gab for hours. As I got older, my drink graduated to a mocha with actual espresso. I’d watch the grown-ups around me tap on their laptops and think, Oh, that’s what cool, successful adults do. They held meetings with important-looking people, made answering emails look glamorous, and, of course, drank copious amounts of coffee. I wanted to be like them. (How naive I was.)My father worked in manual labor; my mother cooked in the middle school cafeteria. To me, Starbucks was a window into a bigger world. It became more than somewhere to escape, but where I could dream of the future I wanted. That was the magic of Starbucks. It wasn’t just a place to buy a cup of Joe; it was selling a place to go.
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