Freedom

Here is a riddle for you.

What requires:

• OVER a year

• 3 buyers and 4 offers (not counting counter offers)

• Correspondence and several calls to a senators office, not once but... TWICE

• Countless DAILY calls from me to check progress/status

• The involvement of someone from the office of the CEO/president of one of the companies

• One very used Trac phone

• A miracle of pulling off notarized documents with 3 business hours of opportunity left on the last day (seriously, they HAD to see this coming?!?)

• Stress of sweating it over papers clearing customs

• The relentlessness of a bone-or-ball-obsessed dog (who doesn't know how to quit)

• The patience of a saint

• And a check I've been dying to write

Answer: my freedom

Finally the albatross is gone.