it would be like to live there.

　　Days later, we made a(n)

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　　—far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t

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　　us. They renewed their offer

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　　. It was also much more than we could afford, but far

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　　than the original asking price.

　　The next day, we got a

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　　message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the

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　　directly. We made our final offer, which

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　　was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it,

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　　we had to try.

　　“Sold!” said the owner. Then he

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　　: He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d

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　　the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a

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　　by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the

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　　in the price “an early wedding present.”

　　That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are

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