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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T07:48:17.000Z",
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  "textContent": "After years of weighing up the pull of London against the promise of the countryside, writer Annabelle Spranklen and her family finally took the leap, only to find their dream of a listed Sussex cottage came with more complications than they could have imagined. In the first of a new column series, she recounts what happened next",
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