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For Jeff and Danielle Perera, happiness is a warm bagel.
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fter a bout with illness as a young child, there was only one thing Danielle Perera wanted: bagels.
Those fat rounds of fresh-baked goodness were all her parents could get her to eat for years.“Bagels were just joy,” Danielle says. “Saturday mornings, we would head out on a bagel run, and Mom would hand me a warm bag of bagels in the back seat. They were always special to me. They meant family, and love.” Danielle, co-owner of Jeff’s Bagel Run in Ocoee alongside her husband Jeff, has a bagful of bagel memories to draw upon. 30
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