The story so far
Biography
She has her mother's gift for making people feel at home without making a performance of it, and the regulars who make Risa's Place their preferred establishment tend to be as loyal to Lanalee's company as to the tavern itself. She occupies that particular position that children of beloved local institutions often find themselves in — simultaneously her own person and an extension of something larger than herself — and she carries it with a grace that suggests she has made her peace with the arrangement, or at least a workable truce with it.
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