Until recently, I thought the expression that something makes your head spin was just a figure of speech. I now know it’s real. After my husband, DC, and I sold the Happier Yellow House in a whirlwind deal, without even listing it, we had 45 days to find a new house, pack up and move out. During half of those days, we were away on a long-planned, nonrefundable summer vacation, which was supposed to be relaxing, but which turned into a nonstop frenzy of long-distance broker negotiations.

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