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Heads Up Curtis Park, We're Looking At You: Our House on Portola  I t was 1997. In '97 Bill Clinton was starting his second term as President. The Dow Jones climbed over 7000 for the first time. It was the year of the 1 st Harry Potter book (The Philosopher's Stone). It was also the year Princess Diana died in a car accident. Movie of the year? - Titanic. I was now working for the State of California in the Department of Corrections (CDCR) and our project had recently relocated to the old Aerojet complex out in Rancho Cordova. That year Kris and I accepted that children were not going to be in our future. While we liked our house in Rocklin, we never felt that we quite fit in there. We were always going down to Sacramento so we decided to get the heck out of Rocklin and Placer County. We began to look at homes in Sacramento proper. We liked midtown and so initially looked for a place there. Each time we found a house we liked it had hardly any yard for our...