Dan Patel is re-acclimating himself to the routine of filling the large, iron-faced fireplace with wood.
He does this every winter morning before he opens his store — a stove-and-fireplace business in Stockbridge, known as Country Fireside, which he owns with his brother, Chandu Patel.
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