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A Texas Original

Something about the white stucco cottage, tucked into a forest of live oaks in the hills of West Austin, Texas, called to Guy and Meg Oliphint. The Houston couple first spotted it in 2012, when they began renting a house nearby for weekend getaways. “The owners showed us around, and we just fell in love with it,” Meg remembers. Living there became a dream—and then their destiny when, a few years later,

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