Ask longtime customers what keeps bringing them back to the same store year after year, and the answer probably will not fit in a shopping bag. For one downtown Sparta business, years of gifts, Christmas traditions, conversations, and familiar faces have turned a place to shop into something people have carried with them through generations.

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