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　　of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of

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　　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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