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She decided to try her own business. With her husband’s help she started a sewing business.

Orders didn’t come in very fast, so she started making decorative pillows, towels, placemats with napkins and blanket throws and selling them at the Emporium flea market.

“I’m sorry it closed,” she said. “Sixty percent of my business came from there. I’d sell an item, and a friend would see it and call and order something.”

They also went into the business of dressing windows. She makes curtains and valences, but they also sell and install “mini blinds.” Mrs. Frye explained that these are similar to

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