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Paula Huber says she's "a dying breed," but don't call the coroner yet.
She's much too busy -- teasing her customers, dusting off her daughters and managing a staff of 22 -- to hold still for an examination.
That's life in the land of Paula's Donuts, a hole in a mall at the edge of Buffalo, New York, demonstrating one dozen at a time that the independent baker can break free of the chains. Two miles to the north, a Krispy Kreme shuttered in 2006.
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