Sep 24, 2013
Couple Returns to Retail with Smithville Gift ShopBy Brian IanieriPressofAtlanticCity.com

Galloway Township, NJ – Dale and Lu Anne Duff had separate careers for years – she in medical research, he in furniture refinishing – until Lu Anne started making seashell centerpieces in a spare bedroom of their home in 1994.

That side business was transformed into a brick-and-mortar gift store in Barnegat in 1996, one that grew quickly enough that it employed both of them.

So when they received an offer to sell the business several years ago, they did and made a short-lived attempt of semi-retiring to Florida.

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