From animal house to our house: a love story

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Mystery House; Chapter 2: Shipwreck; Chapter 3: This Place will Eat you Alive; Chapter 4: Falling for Jill; Chapter 5: A Horse of a Different Color; Chapter 6: Careful what you Wish for; Chapter 7: What was and was Not Here; Chapter 8: Cleaning House; Chapter 9: Dumpsters; Chapter 10: Sub-Contractors; Chapter 11: Love in the House; Chapter 12: Some things I didn't Know; Chapter 13: Jill's Way; Chapter 14: Jill Moves In; Chapter 15: Our First Summer; Chapter 16: American Dreamer; Chapter 17: Failure.;Ten years ago, Ron and his then-girlfriend, Jill, did the impossible. They bought condemned property-a big Baltimore Victorian brownstone and vowed to bring it back to its original glory. The house had been home to Baltimore's most notorious fraternity for a decade and now, wrecked and abandoned, it was filled with garbage. As if that weren't daunting enough: Ron and Jill had been dating for only six months and they knew nothing about fixing up old houses. Friends, family, and concerned onlookers told them not to do it they would surely lose their shirts and their love in the bargain. But J.