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I'm sitting here now with my leg up overlooking the Caribbean after a morning of going through 13 years of beach accumulations with my housekeeper. It's sad and also a relief to sell this place. We've had many good times here but we rarely come over anymore and it just didn't make sense to keep it. Sad for Manuela and I too as she has worked for me even longer than I've had this place. Her daughter and newest grandson came with her so I got to meet the littlest family member. Only 2 months old and beautiful! We're selling it furnished but still I can't believe how much stuff I had squirreled away in a house I don't even live in full time. Manuela made short work of going through it all and I only had to decide into which pile it should go. There are pictures and mementos that I thought I'd lost years ago but somehow ended up here in a closet. A lot went to her house in the village - I really don't need all these sheets and towels and cleaning supplies - and some will be packed in the truck tomorrow to go to the city with us. I was happy that my huge indoor Areca palm - it was getting close to the 17' ceiling - has been unpotted and planted at the village school. The pots and other plants I will take with me. Tomorrow we sign the papers and drive away.
