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MARY BARRETT: To me,
a cottage is just

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a home that's more
casual, a place

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where your family
can gather, and just

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a place where you can relax.

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We have this house because
it's become a really

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important part of our family.

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It's just a place
that we all enjoy.

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We all just feel really
strongly about it

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and about being with
each other here.

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This is my happy place.

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This is where I want
to be all the time.

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Well, it's definitely exercise,
but it is meditative--

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just a whole different
experience of Maine.

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This town is Boothbay
Harbor, Maine.

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It's on the coast.

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It's about an hour and 20
minutes north of Portland.

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It's a beautiful, beautiful
part of the country.

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Everything is
focused on outdoors.

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It's very casual.

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It's very relaxed.

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It's very welcoming.

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I think all of those
things make Maine special.

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My profession originally was
a family practice physician,

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but I'm retired now.

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Just being by the
water is so relaxing.

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It's beautiful.

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I find it very calming.

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There's just always
something to look at.

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We had been living in
Atlanta for 15 years

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and were wanting to have a
home on the water somewhere.

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It just made sense to look up
here because we have family

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and because we have
such a love of Maine.

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We came up, looked
around, and I mean,

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it took me one day
to find this house.

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When I walked in the door, I
was like, this is the house.

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As soon as I saw the
house, I called Steve

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from Knickerbocker,
which is a design

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build company here in Maine--

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he's also my brother-in-law--
and said, Steve,

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would you come over
and look at this house

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and tell me what you think?

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STEVE MALCOLM: The
experience was wonderful

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because we were able to
take this old cottage that

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was really quintessential Maine
and bring it back, if you will.

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The quintessential Maine cottage
is essentially open porch,

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rafter tails that are exposed,
shingle style, lots of glass,

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water views in as many
places as you can get them.

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It's very casual,
very casual living.

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MARY BARRETT: This
was built around 1900,

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and it was a getaway
for people coming

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up from the heat of Boston.

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The house is built
on granite ledge,

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and it slopes down to the
water, so everything's

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kind of on an angle.

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When we bought it,
it had two levels--

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the main level,
which is kitchen,

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dining, living room,
porch, and a bathroom,

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and then upstairs, five
bedrooms and a bathroom.

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Later, we added a bunk
room, which is located down

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underneath the
porch, and there's

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beds and a little living space
and a bathroom down there.

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The house is about
1,700 square feet total.

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My daughter is Elena
Duralde, and she

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works for Knickerbocker Group.

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She's an interior
designer, and Elena

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has been really
instrumental in helping

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to make this house what it is.

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ELENA DURALDE: I
definitely have more

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than your standard
relationship with this house.

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I know every part
of it very well.

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Our home is called
Basque in the Sun.

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My father's side of the family
is from the Basque region

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of Spain, so it's a little pun.

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MARY BARRETT: The
kitchen was an addition.

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Cooking and entertaining
is a really important thing

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to all of us, and so
we wanted a kitchen

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where we could really do that.

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There was a wall here
where it's open now.

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None of this stonework was here.

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One of the first
things we decided to do

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was to take down the
wall, open up the view.

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When that was all
open, they were

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able to bring in this big
granite pillar, which took--

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I don't know-- probably a
big lift and a few people

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to put it upright, and then just
built everything in around it.

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ELENA DURALDE: We
have a big family,

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and it's not uncommon for
us to have a big meal.

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And then after
our meal, we still

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want to continue hanging out.

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Something we do quite
often is we play games,

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and we're all very
competitive people,

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so it's usually pretty fun.

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And then we also
like to do puzzles,

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so it's just a great thing
to lay out on the table

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when you have guests over.

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MARY BARRETT: We
built the fireplace.

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We replaced the old
brick one, and we

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wanted to do something
with it that was kind

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of unique and special to us.

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We put in two stones, one that
is in the shape of the state

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of Maine, and one that's in the
shape of the state of Georgia,

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which is where we live
when we're not here.

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This is the state
of Maine right here,

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and that's the state of Georgia.

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STEVE MALCOLM: One of
the things that Mary

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wanted out of it was to get
as much light to the inside.

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The palette is pretty
dark in general,

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but we wanted to introduce
more natural light

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because it was so cut up.

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We opened it all up.

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ELENA DURALDE: They didn't
even have windows in areas

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where there was just
a beautiful view.

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So like in this
area, for instance,

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these windows were added.

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Everything that was done
was to basically highlight

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the view-- take
advantage of the view

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from every part of the house.

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MARY BARRETT: To
me, in this home,

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it just feels a little kitschy,
a little odd, interesting.

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The things in here sort of
are reflective of our family

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and of what we like.

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One of the collections that I
started at least 20 years ago

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was kitchenware that
had green on it.

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I really didn't have
any place to display it.

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One day I was walking
up these stairs,

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and I just noticed
this big blank wall.

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And I thought,
that's where I can

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put all my kitchen green ware.

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I got to pick the bedroom
I wanted, and this was it.

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This obviously has
this incredible view

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that's right here, so
I can just lie in bed

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and look out at the ocean.

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My husband and I
bought this in Spain.

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There's a town called Talavera
where they make pottery.

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And we went there, and we found
this lamp, which we loved.

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And we never hung it until
we bought this house in 2009.

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ELENA DURALDE: This
is a big gathering

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place for us as a family, and
we use it for many things.

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We have dinner parties out here.

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We spend every morning out here.

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We can take a nap
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MARY BARRETT: This part of the
house-- there was a stairway

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here that went down to an area
underneath the porch, which was

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just a storage area, just
kind of a dirt floor, dark,

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one tiny little window in there.

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So the bunk room was sort of
phase two of our renovation.

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Once we had
grandchildren, we thought,

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well, it'd be great if we
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somewhere.

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So the bunk room is built on
top of ledge, and it's not just

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like a flat level surface.

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It's angled, and
it's rock, and we had

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to build around all of that.

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Beds are at different
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little drawers built in
and spaces that appeared.

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ELENA DURALDE: We had
several different iterations,

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and this was kind of the
layout that worked the best.

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We have these bunk beds.

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We've got a twin bed
behind the porthole,

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and then we've got a queen.

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So it's kind of the perfect
situation for a family.

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I think the general
goal with this space

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was to kind of mirror the
aesthetic of upstairs.

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I would say it's a touch
more nautical than upstairs,

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but that was kind of really
what we were going for,

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was the look and feel of
if you were on a boat.

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We've got these cleats
which are handles to get

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up into the bunks.

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Obviously, we have these buoys.

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We utilize the porthole detail
because that bed in there

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was kind of feeling
cavernous, and also we

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wanted to be able to allow
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in there and to see the view.

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MARY BARRETT: And then we
added all these windows

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because these
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so that's what really
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and also opened up the
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ELENA DURALDE: I mean, I felt
like we're on the same page

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the whole time about the
vision and the space.

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So you guys haven't
even been here before.

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We added two stones.

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One is Maine, and
one is Georgia.

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You got to find them.

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You got to find them.

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I see Maine.

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You found Maine already?

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Yes.

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STEVE MALCOLM: The opportunity
to work on a family house

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was really kind of
special because we're

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a very pretty tight family.

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And of course, now
when we come over here

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and we have fun and have dinners
and have drinks on the porch,

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it's really fun to sit
and see and experience

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the work that we did.

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Here's to the beginning
of summer in Maine

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and plenty more lobster.

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ELENA DURALDE: I think
the story of this house--

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I think what it started
as, what it currently is,

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and what I hope that it
always stays is many things.

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It's a retreat.

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It's a gathering place.

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And I think it is like
the center of family.

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And for us, it's a
really integral part

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of our connections, and
it brings us together

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from all around the world.

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And the hope is that
it stays that way,

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and it's passed down
to our children.

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And they love it
as much as we do,

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and it remains that kind
of respite for people.

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