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and the family was living in Vienna, Va. back in January 1974, when the Fishers found a charming little home in Washington.
"When I was in grad school I did a lot $ of backwoods hiking," said Mr. Fisher, who holds a master's degree in biochemistry from Rutgers University. “One of our hikes started from Big Devil Stairs.” e' Back home in New Jersey, he “told Dawn, That's where I want to live.’ " y ■ Even in the early 70s suburban Virginia was not entirely safe, and the Fishers wanted a home where Tara and David could grow up without worrying about whether they should be walking the sidewalks of their own town.
“We liked the fact that the kids could be raised with a real mixture of people. The other choice was a subdivision somewhere, like Warrenton,” said Mrs. Fisher.
“They made real special friends here as they grew up that were not mirror images of themselves,” said Mrs. Fisher.
As soon as they moved in they also realized they have acquired a “built-in grandmother" right across Mount Salem Avenue in the form of the late Mayes Campbell.
Mr. Fisher tells the story of rising at dawn one morning right after moving in to begin repair on his roof with his father. At about 5:80 a.m. they found Mrs. Campbell, then about 85, at the bottom of the ladder yelling at them: “Get down off that root Crane down here for some ham biscuits,1* recalls Mr. Fisher.• ■ * y W “I don't think you find people like that
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