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Y OU W ILL B E ATTACKED

FOR T RYING TO

C HANGE A NYTHING

M a r-a-Lago

arjorie Merriweather Post officially opened her Mar-a-
MLago estate in 1927. She was then Mrs. Edward F.
Hutton, and she spent four years constructing this incredible
estate, which is on a coral reef in Palm Beach, anchored by con-
crete and steel. For you etymologists, Mar-a-Lago is Latin for
sea to lake. Just from those few facts alone, you will begin to get
a sense of the history of this magnificent estate, which I saw for
the first time in 1985.
We’ve all heard of love at first sight, and I got that lightning
bolt the first time I saw Mar-a-Lago. I immediately knew it had
to be mine, all 128 rooms of it, all 110,000 square feet of it, all

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