Topeka natives Kenneth Troupe Jr. and Matthew O'Shea have been friends for more than a decade. They worked at the Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center together. Then, they went to graduate school at Washburn University together. And now, the pair is opening a small business together. Troupe and O'Shea are nurse practitioners. After graduating with master's degrees in nursing from Washburn, they went back to the local VA hospital to work full time. Though they still have those gigs, their work now isn't done when they clock out at the end of each day. After hours, the pair is working to stand ...