Kam..... L.A. is rediculously waaaaaaaay too expensive for the house & lack of land you'd get there.
N.Y. is expensive too. Maybe N.J. in Alpine or Englewood Cliffs [[close to N.Y.C., just a mile across the Hudson River).

Mary could never live in the Ozarks, lol.

That leaves Las Vegas [[close enough to L.A.) or Atlanta for her needs.

S.S.
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