Week after week, they came in droves. There were bank managers and office workers, a horticulturist and a librarian, a circle of 50 friends and staff from Sea Oaks, and winter visitors from New York and Kentucky. They came by Ford pickup, beat-up Chevy, Mercedes and Lincoln SUV. They came bearing hammers, tape measures, tool belts — and just a touch of trepidation.
They had come, simply, to build a house. Habitat for Humanity had orchestrated such builds 22 times before in Indian River County, using the same architectural design, since the local chapter was founded a decade ago. But this was the first time the building was to be done solely by women. And many of them had never so much as pounded a nail, let alone hang drywall or sheathe a roof.
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