Yesterday, sisters Bea and Leah Koch, co-owners of the Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles, Calif., appeared on the 3rd Hour of TODAY to talk about their experience running the first all-romance bookstore in North America and to spotlight "how they’re pushing boundaries to change the narrative around the genre."
Later, they tweeted: "It made me tear up when they showed a picture of our whole family when we were little and our Mom was alive. It’s bittersweet to build a business and a life without her here to see it. But she’s the reason we do what we do and we are who we are."