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Robert Leedy never knew Jax held one of his father’s architectural designs. It’s laid out like the house Gene Leedy called home for half a century in Winter Haven, but inverted. The house has strange properties Better Homes and Gardens never mentioned. Mary Jane Williamson grew up in the house, her mother holding regular dinner table meetings to discuss the latest spirit activity. She says she saw her first ghost when she was three.

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The story of the Bolles School, one of the most prestigious private schools in Florida, includes the failure of a hotel built like a Spanish castle, a businessman who sold underwater farmland sight unseen, the “grievous angel” of country rock, and soul-rocking existential questions of women’s studies and white privilege. It’s a world unto itself.