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April 2013, visited friends near Sarasota, looked at houses there, visited cousin in TV, looked here. Went home to Maryland, bought a car, but wanted light color because maybe we'd move to Florida, flew to Jacksonville to pick up light-colored car, drove car to TV 3 hours away, stayed with cousins in TV, looked at more houses, loved the last one we saw, not even up for sale yet, bid on house, 3 hours later, bid was accepted, 12 hours later we drove our new car (from Jacksonville), with our soon-to-be-TV house in our hearts, back to Maryland, closed in May, were guests at a driveway party to welcome us with about 40 neighbors in attendence. Moving down to TV full time in July!!!!!! Thank you cousins, Alice and Wally, thank you Nancy and Craig for needing a bigger garage for your Model T, and, thank you Brian, TV realtor, who kept in touch with us during the house negotiations and a surprise birthday party with a busload of people going to Orlando for the evening. Now all we need is a golf car/t/.