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It's this family-friendliness that led Blank to buy the ranch in 2002, several years after he first visited with his wife and their 2-year-old son.
FORBES: True West
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His father was a door-to-door salesman of household items like dishes and blankets and, eventually, saved enough to buy a ranch house in the working-class community of Warwick, Rhode Island.
NEWYORKER: Critical Mass
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He often went to buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.
NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho