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    Jun 24, 2020 5 minutes
    by KIRSTY MCKENZIE,
    photography KIM SELBY

    As celebratory outings go, it was the one that blew all the others out of the water. As Sarah Beaumont recalls her 2012 birthday, her partner, Ian Glover, hit on the idea of a trip to the country to check out a property he’d seen for sale online. Sarah’s career as an organisational development training manager and Ian’s as an air traffic control systems installation manager meant they were always on the go in opposite directions and pretty much passing each other in the hallway of their inner-Melbourne home.

    “We were both living high-stress lives,” Sarah recalls. “So the idea of a tree change had lots of appeal. Our search for a change of pace had led us to look at places in the US, Italy and France,

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