Love, loss and a $20M gift: How one couple’s brain cancer fight is helping thousands

One of the most expensive home sales in St. Johns County history is making an impact far beyond the housing market.A Ponte Vedra Beach estate recently sold for 20 million dollars, but former owner Rick Sontag isn’t taking home a penny. Every dollar from the sale is going toward brain tumor research, a cause rooted in one of the most painful chapters of his life.“It was a no brainer for me. I mean, what am I going to do with more cash in my pocket when I have a foundation that can use that and help build the resources,” Sontag said.Entrepreneur Rick Sontag spent years building a life in the sprawling oceanfront estate and even longer fighting to save the person he built it with, his wife Susan.“We started building the house around 1990. Together, we designed it together, we built it together and it was our joint project. We were going to move into our family home. Then in June of 1994, my wife had a stroke and subsequently was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. So that was our welcom