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Community helps mother.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Karen Champagne )
Karen Champagne of Fairfield, Maine, and her nine children have gone through a very difficult time of their lives. Four years ago, Champagne's husband took his own life after a lengthy battle with mental illness. As one might imagine, the financial burden of supporting nine children took its toll and Champagne fell behind in her mortgage payments. Last June, the mortgage holder initiated eviction proceedings.
"I was losing my home and I really needed help getting a house," Champagne told WCSH news in Portland, Maine. "But, how do you ask someone for a house? Well Brent did it."
"Brent" was local businessman Brent Burger, who read about the Champagne family's dilemma in a local newspaper and decided to help.
Burger first found a place the Champagnes could rent for the summer. But then he did something extraordinary. "I went to the foreclosure auction and bought the house out of foreclosure, so that we could give it back to the family," Burger told WCSH's Fairfield news center. He bought the house back with $78,000 of his own money, allowing Champagne to repay him over time.
"Sometimes you think, 'I should have done this,' or 'I should have done that,'" Burger told the Kennebec Journal. "I didn't want this to be one of those situations where I looked back and I thought, 'I wish I had done something for those people.'"
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