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Rebecca Zearing of her eponymous coffee shop says “ I used to carry a gun when I came to work.” That was back in 1993. It is hard to imagine that now in what seems a peaceful, united, reinvigorated, boutique-shop, old neighborhood.
The somewhat quiet and serene grandmother, who was on her high school rifle team, is no longer a pistol –packing’ mama. Zearing is, however, still full of surprises like the time she stood up to a drug dealer threatening to break her shop windows with a baseball bat. Rebecca occupied the “El Camino” space next door back then. The drug dealer was enraged because she was hurting his business. “All I could think about was, “it is going to hurt if he hits me with that.” He ended up breaking the TV shop windows next door, the location she eventually moved into and still occupies. Or the time four ex-con’s fresh out of prison rolled up with guns (concealed) and tried to rob the coffee shop. She went in back to get them food and calmly called the cops...