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They are weeks into a major renovation after a fissure forced apart rooms in their home.

Once Bellis discovered the crack on his property was part of a larger fissure in the road, he said, he and his mother reported it to the city and the association.

“It’s scary because it’s bigger than anything anyone imagined,” said Sallie Reeves, who has been trying to figure out how to safely remain on her Portuguese Bend property despite the lack of utilities — not to mention the massive fissure that runs through her home of more than 40 years.

This is a delicate matter, one of the very few fissures within the Democratic Party, a fissure that the convention’s planners strenuously evaded.

An ugly legal battle ensued among the siblings, and an emotional fissure opened that has yet to be mended.