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Fate, kismet or serendipity—whatever you call it, Ginger Schmidt believes it led her to the house that is now her home. “We had been searching for a house for a while,” the Macungie, Pennsylvania, resident remembers. Touring the area with a real estate agent, she and her husband, Doug, passed by a 2,100-square-foot brick farmhouse located on almost 2 acres. “I told mywas meant to be, she continues.

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