I was telling a client about a guy I met during my summers. My client, Ms. Harrison, was a lovely woman in her late forties who had just hired my small architectural firm in Charleston, South Carolina, to design a renovation for her historic home. We were having a casual, comfortable conversation about small-town life, a topic that often came up when discussing the local building contractors she would need to hire. I was trying to illustrate a point about checking local reputations before committing to a contractor. The guy I mentioned was from the small, coastal town where my...
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