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    Aug 13, 2019 3 minutes
    TEXT BY VICKI L. INGHAM
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM BATHIE

    A garage with a carriage house above was supposed to be a temporary home for Patsy and Jeffrey Schmidt of Christiana, Tennessee. They would live there with their daughters, Emme Grace and Rayley Beth, while the main house was under construction. But when their third daughter, Maggie, was born with Down syndrome, everything changed.

    “I had a gift shop and did interior

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