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Modern Tradition

ore than two decades ago, when David Johnson was caring for a Spartanburg, South Carolina, neighbor’s three-acre property, the then-22-year-old never imagined he’d ever actually live there himself. But as years passed and he continued to care for the home—at times even staying there while the homeowners were out of town—he began to envision what it would be like to

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