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My Trip To Ashville

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For as far back as I can remember, my family has had close ties to the area surrounding Ashville, NC. My mother spent most of her high school years there, and one of her brothers got married and never left. Some of my earliest memories are from Biltmore House, the home of George Vanderbilt and is family, the largest privately-owned home in America. We would visit up to two or three times a year. While we always visited the house, my family tried to avoid the city of Ashville itself.

Finally, when I was fourteen, I convinced my mother to allow us to expand our explorations into Biltmore Village, a small town –now part of Ashville- which was founded to house the builders of Biltmore House. As we wandered around looking at storefronts

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