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We swapped our house FOR A YACHT!

I’ll choose something for us to watch,’ my husband David, then 33, said wearily as we cuddled on the couch.

It was a warm night in December 2015. I had just put our boys Hamish, then seven, Jack, five, and Christian, one, to bed, and I was in the mood to relax.

With busy lives, we barely had time to spend as a family

As David and I both worked nine-to-five, it was hard to find time to just be together.

He turned– a documentary about a 14-year-old girl who sailed around the world by herself.

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