CONWAY — Cupid’s arrow didn’t immediately strike the Fairfields — who own the Hitching Post in Conway as well as a new company called Ultra Installs — when they first in Guangzhou, China, in 2008. In fact, for Judy and Parker, romance was the last thing on their minds.
“She hated me,” Parker said.
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