July 9, 2025

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Sally Friedman: Down the backyard path

It was a wildly impractical household for a younger pair with kids. But the moment the real estate agent opened the front door to the outdated Tudor property, we understood we had to own it. Although we hadn’t seemed for issues like visitors styles, insulation, sound, wiring, or even that fantastic capture-all phrase that simple persons get in touch with lower upkeep, we joyfully signed on the dotted line. 

Sally Friedman

So overpowering was our lust that almost nothing but an settlement of sale could set out the hearth for us. Its imperfection was alone a type of wonderful perfection.   

We used 20-8 years in that property and left it with the sort of sadness that marks important endings. But our 3 daughters had the audacity to develop up and go away us. In their wake there were being 3 vacant upstairs bedrooms, undreamed of closet space and an just about solemn stillness.