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Chapter 5 - The House We Weren't Random About

There's one more piece to this, and it's the one that still keeps me up some nights.

The house at 14 Thistlewood Lane went to a bidding war back in March of 2025.

We won it by sixteen thousand dollars.

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The other bidder was Sloane Residential Group.

We hadn't been some random target. We were the house they'd already lost once.

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