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Besides, she wasn’t accustomed to change, and at 53, it didn’t seem like an ideal time in her life to take such a risk. “But I said yes, and that made all the difference,” she said.

A Stuckey's store on the interstate.

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Stuckey’s memory of Stuckey’s was nostalgic. She was just a kid in the ‘60s and ‘70s when the roadside oasis op- erated in 368 stores in more than 30 states. There was a manufacturing facility where the famous pecan candy and log rolls were made. There were more than 4,000 Stuck- ey’s billboards splashed across the nation’s highways. “That’s what I remembered. That’s what I thought I was buying,” she said. That wasn’t the reality, though. Only 13 of the 368 stores, once a popular respite on family road trips, were still in operation. Most were long shuttered or inhabited by a not-so-wholesome establishment. All the candy mak- ing was outsourced, much of the inventory was dated and caked in dust, plus the company was six figures in debt.

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There were two employees and an office in a double-wide trailer. Hers was not the story of a fortunate heiress. “This wasn’t really my inheritance,” she said. “What I inherited was my grandfather’s grit, my grandfather’s resil- ience, my grandfather’s ability to pivot and change.

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