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Real Humans By Gina Kaufmann

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Published August 8, 2021 at 4:00 AM CDT

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When Irma Hernandez rented a desk inside a music store on Southwest Boulevard, she never dreamed the entire space would one day belong to her — or that her daughter would turn it into a Mexican coffee shop.

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