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Hello and happy Friday.

I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

We talked about Villas de Vecchi this week. Two of it. Yeah, two of it. There were a couple things that I didn't include. The episode ran a little bit shorter than usual and I had had these things in and I pulled them out. One is a thing that I didn't pull out. It's just a random thing, but I just could not substantiate them, and they were odd enough that I would have felt weird, even trying to, I mean, just trying to talk around them. I was like, surely there should be a record of this. Like, it just became a weird thing.

Yeah.

One was that allegedly there was actually a fire there at some point.

I don't know if this is true.

I never found any news stories about it.

Nothing.

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