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It happens like that at Trade Winds \u2014 Tolbert gives, and people give back. People come from all over, not because they can\u2019t get a sandwich closer to home, but because this place is more than lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI got a doctor \u2014 he retired to Charlottesville but still calls me asking, \u2018You got some chicken salad for your honey?\u2019 If he don\u2019t come, he sends his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some places you pass through. Others pull you back. Trade Winds carries people here, over and over \u2014 not just for the food, but for Tolbert, for the comfort of being remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like family, she doesn\u2019t have to ask where they\u2019ve been. She notices who hasn\u2019t come in for a while. When a former cancer patient stopped showing up with his family, she sent his son home with soup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTake this to your daddy,\u201d she told him. \u201cTell him it\u2019s from me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cancer runs in her family, so she understands the fight. That\u2019s why she\u2019s made it a tradition \u2014 when a customer finishes treatment, their next meal is on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt means a lot to them,\u201d Tolbert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like the winds that name this place, Tolbert is constant. People come and go, but she remains \u2014 a fixed point, a place to return to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI will always be there for them,\u201d she promised, \u201cno matter what \u2014 good or bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether they return tomorrow or the winds of life bring changes that take them longer away, Tolbert will welcome them as if it were yesterday \u2014 just like family. GN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Trade Winds Subs & Deli is located at 2201 Langhorne Rd., Lynchburg. Call (434) 528-3218 for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE DOOR swings open, the air bringing with it the weight of the people coming and going. Some step inside briskly, scrubs rustling as they approach the counter. Others move slower, distracted, pausing just inside the doorway as if recalibrating between two worlds \u2014 the hospital across the street and the steady warmth of Trade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n