Sunday, March 10, 2013

To make an offer.

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Dear seller,

It was a pleasure to run into you the other day. It sounds like your mother was a kind woman. The neighbor had nothing but nice things to say. I can only imagine the stories those two could have told about nearly 50 years next door to each other. 


I remember a day about a year into teaching when I realized that I’d fallen in love with the neighborhood and wanted to spend my life there. I think that’s when my job became much more than a job. I loved the kids I taught. I loved the sense of community that is so strong in the neighborhood. That’s the moment when I realized I wanted to plant my life in Ward 7. I started looking at apartments and nothing seemed right, so I started saving for a down payment on a house.


I want this home to be a place where I can invite friends and neighbors over for dinners and cook-outs: a place where friends are families are comfortable popping in for dinner.  I can only pray that God would be so kind as to allow me to marry and raise kids for fifty years like your parents did in this house. I’m moved by the legacy of stability that this home seems to radiate. I ask that you would consider the offer attached.

Thank you,

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