
This is a true story about a house without running water and the people who wanted to live there. There was a mobile home park in rural Louisiana that was in pretty bad shape. Because its well had dried up, none of the residents could get running water.
The landowner next door decided that he wanted to expand his property, so he offered to buy all of the mobile home lots. Most of the lot owners sold cheap, but not Mrs. Daisy (all names have been changed.) That was her home, and water or not, she wasn’t moving!
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