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“No,” I la home at once, of course And then there’s the other factor…”

The other factor The one part of the whole beautiful equation that nagged at me, more and more, as the weeks and months went by

“Still nothing?” Melissa asked

“No”

“It’ll happen, Saly “Don’t sweat it”

“I know,” I said,“I’m… I’m really not”

A long stretch of silence passed It alot aard, but Melissa smiled and swooped in

“It’s probably just stress,” she said “Stress about work, stress about the expansion Your business is growing faster than you can keep up with it,” she went on “That’s a good thing!”

A good thing Yes, it definitely was Since starting Universal Designs al and staging service into a full-blown renovations company And then last year…

Last year I’d brought things to a whole different level

My ultioal — my dream, really — was to not only renovate, but actually build too Asold, historic properties, I wanted to somehow be involved in their creation as well

And then it hit ht We were curled up on the couch together, after a particularly long marathon of old, scary movies

“You really love renovating these old places,” he’d said, “but you hate destroying them with new construction”

“So?”

“So why don’t you build all new construction… of historic old floor-plans?”