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July 20, 2005 Takaaki Iwabu [/assets/story/image_buynow.comp]
"Welcome home," Phil and Joy Rau said to each other before they exchanged a kiss during their first walk through their new home in Cary. After the closing, where they had signed many papers and received a set of keys, the couple drove straight to the house, the first they've owned. "For me, buying a house means putting down the roots," said Phil Rau, a 27-year-old software engineer at IBM. "Now I am an adult, and this is where I will be living at least for the next few years." His wife, Joy Rau, 28, a desktop publisher at Global Knowledge, noted that houses figured strongly in their childhood memories. So their own home "will give us a sense of continuity; we are looking forward to having kids in a few years," she said.
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Takaaki Iwabu
"No Ordinary Day" is a visual diary of the events, both large and small, that serve as milestones in people's lives. It debuted on March 24, 2002 and concluded on Aug. 29, 2007. We hope you continue to enjoy looking at our archive of “No Ordinary Day” images.


Travis Long
The column is a celebration of the struggles, triumphs and tears we experience as we travel from birth to death. Our goal was to document moments in time that might otherwise be missed; sometimes it's the tiniest incident in one's life that has the most profound effect. When on assignment for the column, we looked for that one photo that tells a whole story. Some are the result of a found moment we came across on our daily assignments or our daily existence. For others, we thought of a specific event, like a first haircut or last dance, and sought out a subject who might illustrate the idea.

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