My family and I are preparing for a major life change. After eight years, we are leaving the home we built together — the place where my husband and I began our marriage, where we brought our son home, where the walls themselves seem to hold the memory of who we became as a family. I thought we would stay forever. And yet, here we are. The new home offers things our hearts have quietly longed for: land to garden, space for our son to roam and explore the way I did as a child

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