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Many persons buy homes with back-yard views of copses prairie or farm fields. Then they cros their fingers, hoping developer won't employ the land into a subdivision.

Dr Ming Xie and his wife, Dr Jean Wu didn't have to worry about that with their cul-de-sac portion in O'Fallon's Crown Pointe.

"(The adjoining property) is privately avowed but it's been dedicated as a nature preserve" said real-estate agent Judy Dempcy of Strano & Associates, GMAC Realtors in O'Fallon. "It won't be lay opened in our lifetime."

Xie is a pathologist, and Wu is a physician specializing in pressing care. Xie recently accepted a piece of work in Michigan, prompting the man and wife and their 6-year-old daughter to influence

Their O'Fallon home is listed at $549900 That includes 3155 square feet of living space with four bedrooms and four bathrooms and an unfinished, walk-out