Settled into her new home, The Chelsea at Sparta, Jenny Lester fondly looked back on the story of how she ended up here.

How as a young girl with a passion for dogs, she moved from Great Britain to the United States alone at 16 to work for a private kennel in Ohio. How she traveled to Pennsylvania to get the dogs settled in their new home after the kennel's owner retired, before eventually moving to Long Valley and opening her own grooming and pet goods store in Dover with her husband, Jim.

And how the couple sold everything they had to buy a charming little shop — completed with a quaint studio apartment on the second floor for them to call home — on a secluded strip of Route 94, just between Newton and Blairstown, in 1976.

"We went to see it and I said, 'Oh my god, do you think we can

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