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Sweet spot: Morgan, Rudd own upstate New York candy shop

Dec 29, 2016 | 8:45 AM

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan, whose character in “The Walking Dead” wields a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat, has a sweet side.

Samuel’s Sweet Shop in the Hudson Valley village of Rhinebeck is co-owned by Morgan, actor Paul Rudd, their wives, and a third couple.

The couples bought the store in December 2014, months after longtime owner, Ira Gutner, died of a heart attack.

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports (http://pojonews.co/2iIYikx ) the actors were devoted customers of the store and didn’t want it to go out of business. They live in Rhinebeck about 85 miles north of New York City.