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The Best
Birthday
Present
BY CHRISTINA PFENNING CRAIGOne family found a novel
way of giving their great-
grandmother her birthday wish- her childhood home
ALL KATHERINE BATES JONESwanted for
her90thbirthdaywastoownherchildhood
home. Her daughter, Emily Sims, wasn’t so
keen on the idea; it seemed unwise for a nona-
genarian to enter the real estate market. And,
as the old saying goes, you can never really
gohomeagain.Butthemotheranddaughter
often drove from their current town in South