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Autumn’s best friend, Stephanie Douglas, and her boyfriend, local police officer Adam Miller, walked hand in hand through the trails of the Peabody Mansion. Autumn and the local landscaping company did a beautiful job creating meandering pathways on her thirty acres with surprises around each bend. Stephanie especially liked the pond with a bench dedicated in loving memory to Autumn’s parents, Stella and George Clarke, who were killed in a car accident. They would have loved sitting there gazing at the ducks and listening to the birds.
Statues of fairies, gargoyles, buddhas, and pagodas stood throughout the woods, some near the path and others amidst the shadowy areas beneath old-growth trees. Each one had spaces to secure battery-operated tea lights, giving the trail a mystical ap
