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Now, people would no doubt pay richly for the chance to spend the night at a remote home potentially occupied by a verbal varmint, but this attitude was a half-century away from the Irvings’ occupancy.
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― The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
― The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose
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The new owners of the South Valley Street house, who described themselves online as people who "love dancing, practicing selfrealization, meditation, freedom, and investing," turned the Kardonsky-Cook home into an Airbnb. They named it "A Creek Runs Through It Olympic Mountain Retreat." It was one of the four properties they had purchased to rent around the Olympic Peninsula. The listing described the house as a "historic luxury two-story farmhouse" and charged guests $190 a night to sleep in th
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― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
