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chapter 1

Is It Correct?

The statement has truth but not quite
enough to be true.
—Francis M. Cornford

iving my deposition proved to be one of the most
depressing days of my life. Like Dorothy waking
Gup in the Land of Oz, I realized I wasn’t in Kansas
anymore.
My husband and I had bought a piece of property on
which the previous owner hadn’t disclosed that it was lo-
cated in a creek floodway (meaning it could never be re-
claimed and built on). Neither did the Realtor® represent-
ing both of us, the buyer and seller in the transaction,
investigate the issue as we had asked her to do. So when we
discovered we’d paid a king’s ransom for practically worth-
less land, we were forced to file a lawsuit against the
landowner and Realtor for their nondisclosure.
Here’s what I expected at the deposition from the owner
and Realtor: a lot of “he said/she said.” Or, “When you
asked about X, I thought you meant Y.” Or, “When I said
Z, what I really meant was B.” And a plethora of, “I don’t

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