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Four people sit at a table at a restaurant drinking from styrofoam cups.

Chandani Khatri Chhetri, second from left, her roommate, Saju Rayamajhi, left, and Chandani’s mother, Mana, and father, Ramess, have brunch at Elmwood Pastry Shop in West Hartford in June 2023. Yehyun Kim / CT Mirror