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ABOVE Doreen Sanfelici, Annette Adamska, Cat Warren, Ilene, Kate – with Zara and Anya – and Jim enjoy the evening with a fire and a glass of wine on the Hadlers screened-in back porch. BELOW These faces of humans and animals alike – made from the shells of horseshoe crabs – are just a few of the pieces of art hanging in the Hadler home.
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“We worked with a real estate agent, but we also knew we had to be creative and aggressive if we were going to buy a home in this popular neighborhood. I put notes in mailboxes, wrote pleas on listservs to homeowners thinking about selling and was first to every open house. We spread the word. “Our search paid off. We had just come back from looking at an old home that needed a ton of work and we were feeling really discouraged,” she recalls. “I popped on my computer and there on the magical Trinity Park listserv – where you can get anything, and anything is possible – were pictures of this house and a note saying the current owner was selling. Within seconds of it coming up, I called [the owner]. She was heading to yoga and couldn’t see us. I begged her until she relented and we literally left dinner on the counter and ran over to see this house.” And they were ready to make a decision, quickly. “The second I stepped foot in the house, I tried not to act too excited,” Ilene says. “I don’t even think my husband and I made eye contact or spoke to each other. We walked out into the garden after a five-minute