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We had to change our hat and turn : Texas business owners credit COVID-19 pandemic changes for unprecedented success
Larry Singleton and Woody Smith run two different Texas businesses. In their own ways, they have not only survived during the pandemic they have thrived. Author: Jay Wallis (WFAA) Updated: 5:36 PM CST January 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for small businesses across Texas as many owners do whatever they can to stay afloat.
Two businesses in North Texas have found a way to not only survive but thrive.
Their tactics, however, that brought them success were completely different.
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His mother, Nedra Smith, thinks about her first-born, just 15-years-old, every day and every night.
She thinks about how she was just beginning to know what it felt like to have a full-fledged teenager with his driver’s license just around the corner.
She thinks about him when his five younger siblings want to know why they can’t see him.
She thinks about how much help he was as the man of the family, and how that burden now rests on her 13-year-old.
“I don’t sleep because my mind is constantly racing, trying to put together the who and the why,’ Smith said. “I just don’t get what was so bad, so horrible for you to still have life and my child doesn’t. It’s like one of those movies where you are left hanging. I don’t have an ending.”