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Life changes lead to tamale sales

by | Dec 22, 2021 | Latest

Selling shaved ice in the summer and tamales in the fall and winter months might sound a bit random, but one Wylie couple is having fun making it their seasonal hustle.

In 2018, after successfully battling cancer, John Davila was forced to retire early from his machinist job at Raytheon but said he didn’t “want to just sit around the house recovering and doing nothing.” “I was forced to retire early and social security doesn’t cover everything, so you have to find something to do,” he said.
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