Her Family Brought A U Haul To Her Lake House Until The Gate Stayed Closed

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“You want this tightened up?” he asked.

“Yes,” I said. “All of it.”

By Sunday evening, every exterior lock had been replaced with new hardware. The smart-home codes were wiped and reissued to a different format entirely. The gate sequence changed. The Wi-Fi admin password changed to something Melissa could not guess by trying her children’s continue reading …