NEW YORK (AP) — Near the end of 2021, Jessica Callahan was living in Columbus, Ohio, working as a social science researcher and wondering if there was a better way
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NEW YORK Near the end of 2021, Jessica Callahan was living in Columbus, Ohio, working as a social science researcher and wondering if there was a better wa
New York (AP) Near the end of 2021, Jessica Callahan was living in Columbus, Ohio, working as a social science researcher and wondering if there was a better way to support herself. Her friends Julie Ross and Austin Carter had similar thoughts and a similar solution: Open a bookstore. "I think a lot of people re-evaluated what was important to them during the lockdown and we realized the place we were always happy to be at was a bookstore," says the 30-year-old Callahan, who with Ross and Carter last year founded the Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, close to Carter's hometown. The roughly 1,000-square foot store is located on the main floor of a Queen Anne style house where Callahan and Ross live upstairs. "We looked at our lives and thought, 'Why not?' Nothing else felt guaranteed anymore so why not just try to be happy," she added. "We're not getting rich from this, but we're able to pay our bills and pay ourselves.&quo