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Viewers will witness how the design team from ""Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"" rebuilt a house for the widow and three surviving sons of a husband/father who had once dreamed of renovating the place himself. The remarkable process and more of the touching story of this renovation in Brathwaite, Louisiana, near New Orleans. Right before Christmas in 2003, Robin Leslie received the life-altering news that both her oldest son, Merlin, and her husband, Doug, had been killed in a car crash. Robin was left with a broken heart, an unfinished and rundown house, and alone to care for three surviving young children -- Spencer, six, and three-year-old twins Brent and Brandon. A school guidance counselor by profession, Robin now finds that she is the one who needs help, as does the home, where the boys sleep together in a room downstairs because their dad never got the chance to remodel their bedrooms. As with all of the intense remodeling projects that ""Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"" undertakes,