This post is a further continuation of the 'Saga of Sonnypage', an Atlanta...

This post is a further continuation of the 'Saga of Sonnypage', an Atlanta area real estate broker who posts on my investment board the Motley FOOL. Previous Sonnypage highlights include:Lights Out in Georgia...on 2006/07/27Soft Market Debris....... on 2006/08/02Is the Fed irrelevant? ...on 2006/08/03Scared in Atlanta...........on 2006/08/06Time Keeps on Ticking..on 2006/08/27Two Anecdotes..............on 2006/09/15Friendship LostSonnypage 2007/01/12The origins of 'Friendship Lost' go back to a Sonnypage post made on the Motley FOOL on 2006/12/08. Let's pick up the story from Sonnypage:

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