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ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Our guest on this episode of Abilene People is Jay Stearns, the pitmaster and genius behind Jay’s BBQ Shack. Jay’s story is a great example of how passion can lead to unexpected success. He and his wife Diana were married in Abilene before moving to Austin, where Jay began a career with Dell Computers in Round Rock. After ten years, Dell asked him to relocate to Lebanon, Tennessee—but instead, Jay decided to return to Abilene and start over. It turned out to be the right call: not long after, Dell closed that Tennessee facility.

Back in West Texas, Jay took a job in the oil field while

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