In 1992, Kathy Kemp Hardy and her husband took over a retail paint business that had been in her family since 1949. When the marriage ended in 2004, Hardy had to figure out what to do with Texas Paint, with four locations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. "I could have decided to sell at that point," she said, "but I just didn't want to do that." So she opted for something a little more daring.
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