For 14 years, Gene “Coffee King” Burch, 68, would hold court as the manager of Common Grounds Coffee Shoppe and Deli in Flowery Branch. “If you didn’t have any money and in a bad mood, he’d give you coffee,” Flowery Branch City Clerk Melissa McCain said. “He’d take care of you.”
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