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country tor Ula Virginia. After two years with the Front Royal company. DeBergh was offered a job in Seattle. Washington, bv one of those fruit brokers.
He saw it as a golden opportunity to grab his dream. "We knew that Rappahannock County was where we wanted to live for the rest of our lives. It was home, tradition, everything. 1 was always looking for a way to make a living here, a way to avoid that commute over the mountain. For a long time. I thought farming was the only way 1 was ever going to be able to work and live here. I even considered putting in an orchard."
But exposure to the brokerage business showed him another avenue. "1 realized that you could live in Timbucktoo. on the planet Mars, or anywhere, just as long as you’ve got a telephone. You can have an office on the roof, in a closet, in the bathroom, just as long as it’s got a phone connection." DeBergh said. “1 can run up a $2,000 a month phone bill without blinking an eye!"
He jumped at the chance to plunge into the business of buying and selling fruit, dealing with imports and
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