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Carretta McLean loves owning a business in downtown Gastonia
Retirement lasted exactly one week for the Belmont resident.
McLean, 85, the owner and manager of Your Christian Bookstore on Main Avenue in downtown Gastonia, put it pretty succinctly: I was retired one week and up here the next. As I got ready for retirement, she explained, my husband and my son knew I wasn t ready to sit down and stay home. This store was for sale and it was basically a gift to me to give me something to do.
McLean has now cultivated that something to do for nearly three decades.