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Margaret Leonard

Margaret Leonard

Co-founder and co-owner of Dotters Books, a woman-owned independent bookstore in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Sep 26, 2026

18:15
Does daughters have a meaning? Oh, well,
18:18
yeah, it's kind of funny.
18:19
So when the shop started, there were three of us, three women, and planning had been going great.
18:24
Everything was really lovely.
18:26
And we could not for the life of us figure out a name.
18:28
Everything we came up with was awful.
18:31
And so we started asking friends just like, okay, if you're going to name a bookstore, what would you name it? And we had a very well-meaning friend who suggested to us something like rivers and suns or something like that, something and suns.
19:10
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