Read the excerpt from the story, Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer. Then read the quotes from the passage below and choose an inference that could be logically drawn from each passage.
We were standing by the boarded-up windows of what had once been the greatest diner in Brooklyn. The Blue Box was shut up like a tomb. You couldn’t see the green vinyl booths by the window or the big oval counter that sat in the middle of the place like the center ring in a circus. There weren’t any whiffs of stuffed pork tenderloin with apricots or country meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes or Addie’s famous cinnamon ice cream dripping down that deep-dish apple pie of hers with crust so buttery it would bring cabdrivers to their knees in pure reverence. Anyone from Brooklyn knows cabdrivers don’t bow the knee for much.