Southern Home

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A home along the water’s edge is compelled to respond to its setting more than most. While the Gulf of Mexico is the Florida Panhandle’s defining body of water, many permanent residents find the rare coastal dune lakes equally captivating.

When a couple who had owned a place in Rosemary

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