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THERE’S A DRAMATIC SCENE currently under way on Martha’s Vineyard. To keep their 8,300-square-foot house from plunging off an eroding bluff, the owners are moving it back 275 feet. The estimated cost: at least $1 million. The stone and wood-shingled house, built in 2004, has seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a massive basement with a bowling alley, according to public records. All of that ”plus a 1,814-square-foot guesthouse and a garage” is going, much of it to the 4-acre property next door that the owners bought in January for $4.5 […]