Marketplace listener Vivian Simonsen-Jupp of Henderson, Nevada was excited to have everyone in her family home for Christmas for the first time in years. But when her oven broke the day before the big feast, her desperate scramble for a new one led to an unexpected epiphany. 

Her story is the debut installment of our listener-generated series, “The Transaction.”

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