Familiar greetings follow: "How you doin'?" "How was the beach last week?"
Prospective bidders (mainly real estate agents or investors) and a curious bystander or two, they sit on benches or stand by the front steps of the county courthouse in downtown Annapolis for the morning's foreclosure auctions.
This is where so many individual stories of bad choices and bad luck come to a quiet, anonymous end. None of the former owners is present to see his house auctioned off.
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