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Rebecca Dinstuhl, president of Dinstuhl's Fine Candy Company, was destined to fit that mold. At age 2, she was on the cover of company calendars that hung in her grandparents' candy stores, Saxon's Fine Candies, throughout the South. By age 6, she was eagerly helping customers. "I was too short to see over the counter, so I would pull up a 5-gallon can and stand on it so I could take orders," she said. When Rebecca was 18, she accompanied her grandmother, Cora Saxon , to a Chicago candy convention, where she was set up on a blind date with, and soon married, Gary Dinstuhl, a young man whose family owned Dinstuhl's Fine Candy Company in Memphis. For 17 years, she managed Dinstuhl's. Twenty years after her divorce, and a successful career in marketing at The Peabody and other hotels, she was asked to head the company by its new owner, Larry Moss. Her son still worked there and she couldn't let his dreams die, so she agreed. "It was because of Andrew's love for the business that I left the hospitality industry to come back and run Dinstuhl's. We wanted to continue the tradition of Dinstuhl," she said. She is married to Charles Rafael, a retired Memphis school teacher, and is mom to Martin, 35, Andrew, 30, and Adam, 26. She recently took time out to answer questions from Midsouthmoms.com.
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