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This is the fall line. This is the fall line.

Birmingham, Alabama, Monday, December 27th, 2010, just two days after Christmas.

It was a little after 9 a.m. when a customer arrived at Top Perfect Nails Salon on Bessemer Road in the western part of the city, an area known as Inslee.

The shop was owned by Jackie Nguyen and run by his family.

He and his romantic partner, Nutfan,

were well known throughout the neighborhood and well liked by residents and business owners alike.

Jackie's teenage daughters were often in the salon. His eldest Linda worked there during the

summers when she wasn't in school. Nutt's daughter, Tau, had been living in the Birmingham area, too.

She'd come to town to check it out as a possible home for herself and her children,

but stayed to care for her mother after Nutt was diagnosed with cancer.

Jackie and Nutt had been together for a few years,

and he'd cared for her during her treatments.

He liked to take her out when she was filling

up to it, to dinner, or a nearby casino, to cheer her up. Nutt's 51st birthday was coming up

in just a few days, on January 1st, and Jackie would have been 61 on the very same day.

They loved to share their celebrations.

Jackie and Nut had worked on Sunday the 26 with the shops two employees, another couple,

who Jackie'd found an apartment for in town.

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