A year ago on July 4th, at 3:30 in the morning, Blair and Brooke Harber sent a text message to their parents. It said: “I love you.” A short time later, the two sisters — Blair, 13, and Brooke, 11 — were swept away by the Guadalupe River as catastrophic floodwaters tore through Hunt, Texas. Their grandparents, Mike and Charlene Harber, were lost in the same waters. When rescuers found Blair and Brooke the following day, fifteen miles downriver, their hands were locked together.
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Mark Maguire‘s journey in hospitality reads like a globe-trotting adventure. He began with Disney, helping launch sprawling resorts and the Pleasure Island entertainment complex, then spent a transformative year in Paris opening Euro Disney, absorbing the city’s culture, cuisine, and knack for unforgettable guest experiences. Returning to the U.S., he partnered with restaurateurs in Celebration, Florida—a quaint Disney-built town—before heading home to Dallas to open Maguire’s, a virtual institution that thrived for more than two decades.
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