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Heather Agosta and Chuck Bauman DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH TEA

“In the mid-1990s, I began working at a Portland [Oregon] bookshop called New Renaissance Bookstore, where I met my future husband, Chuck,” Heather Agosta wrote me. “The owners, Jamey and Darlene, kept the bookshop stocked with delicious teas for customers and staff, and Chuck and I began to explore new varieties of tea together. He had no previous familiarity with tea, but true appreciation took hold when fate led him

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