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After glancing at the real-estate listing in May 2016 and deeming the home an ‘ugly duckling’, Jacqui Hennessy and her partner Carla Fetter very nearly didn’t inspect the 1980s-style home they ended up buying in Melbourne’s inner east. “But we were hoping to start a family soon and had been looking for a year – missing out on two others – so I gave it a look, based purely on

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