There's a special gift shop off Highway 291 in Harrisonville, Missouri.

Its co-owner, Michele Shanahan DeMoss, thinks it has a little bit of everything.

"I think I've been playing store my whole life," Shanahan DeMoss said. "I would just play around with names in my mind and I just said one day, 'good things will happen under the awning."'

She named the store, Under the Awning, and recently moved it from Independence to its current location.

That hasn't stopped some customers from noticing her.

She said: "Some people will say to me, 'Oh, you look familiar."'

Her store front is something she's held close over the years.

"It allows me to use a different energy and a face that people don't see," Shanahan DeMoss said.

In 2011, her daughter, Blair Shanahan Lane, was killed by celebrator

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