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From the “Art Leather Center of the Whole Civilized World”

Most entrepreneurs, when considering starting a business, get a common piece of good advice from family and friends. Before putting your own name above the “open” sign, the parties counsel and spend some time working for someone else in the same business. Learn the ropes. Get the lay of the land.

C. Loy Cuellar of El Paso, took those words to heart. Before opening C. Loy’s Leathers in early 2015, he spent more

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