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One spring morning a couple of years ago, Karen McDonough was having her tea at her dining room table.
She lives in a cute little two bedroom place in Quincy, Massachusetts.
She looks out her window to the neighborhood beyond, and she sees something unusual.
There were like 20 cars, and they all came at the same time.
And they parked, like, in front of my house, across the street, up the street and down the street.
I just had this feeling like something really bad had happened to she was right.
Something bad was definitely happening to her.
And then I saw people get out, and then they were like, coming to my lawn, and I'm like, why is everybody at my house?
Karen puts on her shoes, goes out to the driveway.
At this point, a group of men are milling around the lawn, casually dressed, except for one guy who seems to be in charge.
There was somebody, I think he might have had a uniform on or something, and he had a piece of paper.
And I said, what's happening?
And he goes, we're selling your house.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?