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“Oh Aaron, your home is beautiful,” I told him He looked around when I said it as if it were the first tied and said,

“It’s home”

We set our Chinese food up on the dining roo and I felt like Aaron and I were finally falling into a comfortable place with our conversation He was so smart and so well-informed that I wondered how he found the ti a multi-national company I often looked at hieous face that didn’t look a bit over its early thirties had already seen the battles that starting and building a successful coained the respect of nearly everyone in his field I was in awe of how much he’d achieved in such a short time I also knew that had to be where his reserved personality likely steet the business world to take so so seriously, he had to shed hi too quickly I could see hih and for that I was appreciative Itup more to me about his personal life as well He toldto buy it for years but the people n it now didn’t want to sell it

“Have they lived there long?” I asked him

“Yes, they’ve lived in it for almost twenty years and raised their children there To them, it’s their home”

“It didn’t go to you when your parent’s passed?”

“It did, technically, the entire estate did, although it wasn’t ht it would be best since I was so young to sell it and place the rateful to theo to school and start my business…but I think all the time about how hard my father worked to buy that house My row up and raise my own family in it…”

“Maybe the owner’s will change their mind someday”

“Maybe,” he said with a sad s about his parents and their deaths made him sad so I said,

“I grew up on Long Island”

“I had you figured for Upstate,” he said with a grin

“Really? Why’s that?”

“You’re just so wholesoirl next door I could see you in the Ha your horses every weekend”