The house on East Maple Street was cheap because everything in...

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The house on East Maple Street was cheap because everything in Youngstown was cheap. Not the interesting cheap of a city trying to reinvent itself. Just the exhausted cheap of a place that had run out of reasons to care.

Ray McCulloch bought it for eight thousand dollars from a guy who emailed him a picture and said "need to sell fast." The picture showed a double-wide bungalow with peeling paint and a yard full of weeds. It looked like every other house on East Maple Street. Ray knew what he was doing. He had been doing renovation work for fifteen years, first in the factory break room where he fixed the...

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