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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The ceilings upstairs are quite low and I wonder sometimes how the Flagg boys lived up there … They would’ve had to duck to go through the doorframes.”

— Mindy Hitchcock, who with her fiance had unknowingly purchased the childhood home of Cooper Flagg in Newport in 2023.

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