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ast September, Christine Nickerson posted a six-second video on Instagram that quickly went viral. Labeled, “When my husband takes the kids on a quick errand,” it shows her locking the door and speedily tearing down their home’s fireplace surround, smashing the hearth, and pulling out window trim.
It was a video that spoke directly to the DIYer and the busy mom, the dreamer and the doer. “So many people related to that,” she said. What the clip doesn’t show, is that it took Christine nine years to reach that point.
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