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And they got to use the big ribbon-cutting scissors, right? “The Chamber of Commerce came out and did a ribbon cutting for us, which was great,” he says. Allen says Murtland had always wanted to open a bookstore, and they both have another dream they shared together. “We aren’t organized like a normal bookstore that would have fiction, nonfiction, etc. We’re actually organized by demographic. So we have AAPI, we have Indigenous, we have Black authors, we have LGBT authors,” says Allen. “We really wanted people to be able to come in and find stories that they were interested in or find stories that reflected their own identities.”
Considering what is too-often seen in the headlines these days, I asked Allen if there’d been any negativity directed toward the store.
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