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What Lupie Built: The Woman Behind the Cafe on Monroe Road
Lupie Duran was 22, a single mother, and had $12,000 when she opened a small cafe in East Charlotte in 1987. Thirty-eight years later, the tables are still full.
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Lupie Duran was 22, a single mother, and had $12,000 when she opened a small cafe in East Charlotte in 1987. Thirty-eight years later, the tables are still full.