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“Everyone needs a place to retreat, to rest, to recharge,” says homeowner Jim Edwards. “For me, that place is Old Town in South Dallas County, Alabama. When I unlock the gate, I immediately relax and enter my retreat.”

Jim and his wife, Beth, live and work in Montgomery, Alabama, but they both grew up just 50 miles away

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