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From: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
Date: 20061231
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Byline: Charity Vogel

Dec. 31--Flan Parker has one of those jobs that only people in novels do. She's in the resale business. But, in Flan's case, there's a twist: she buys the contents -- cheaply, and sight unseen -- of abandoned self-storage units, then sorts out the stuff inside and resells it off of her tiny front lawn in an ongoing "garage sale." (In real life this makes your neighbors hate you. In Flan's case, of course, they love her.) As the 30something mom of two young kids, Flan needs to do this "reselling" on her lawn and on eBay in order to help support ...

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