Butler did it

By Mark Gordon
| 9:08 a.m. November 22, 2013

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With $33 in her checking account and $4,500 in rent due, Gina Butler's vision, to bake and sell sumptuous cupcakes with a swirly mountain of frosting, was on the verge of despair.

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