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Between her time in the second Reading Boulevard house and her current condo, Nancy spent 10 winters in Florida. With her children grown and scattered in various areas of the state and the country, she purchased a condo in Palm Beach Gardens and enjoyed six months of sunshine and warm temperatures.

“It was lovely,” she recalls. “It was a gated community, and it was a very friendly place. Plus, I got to play tennis every day.”

But her passion for tennis took second place to her passion for her Wyomissing friends, her children and her growing brood of grandchildren, including her youngest granddaughter, who just turned 1.

Nancy wanted to help out, and that meant taking care of her newest grandchild when her parents needed to be on the job. So, it was goodbye to Florida and back to Wyomissing full-time with the purchase of a nearby condo.

“It’s so great seeing her every day,” she says, “and it’s wonderful seeing my cousin, niece, my sister-in-law, my entire family and friends year-round.”

The Florida condo went up for sale, and settlement was set for late January of this year.

Nancy gathered her whole clan for one last Christmas holiday in Florida and then got down to cleaning and packing up.

“I moved into the (Wyomissing) condo on Dec. 10, and I had to have everything out of the Florida condo by Jan. 3,” she recalls. “After everyone left, I stayed for an extra four days before the moving truck arrived. I was so busy that I was just eating cheese and crackers and drinking wine as I worked. I lost six pounds doing it.”

Nancy also tackled packing up her Wyomissing residence in preparation for her current condo life, doubling the work at the time but proving that when you put your mind to doing something, you truly can accomplish just about anything.