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This story in the NY Times is warm and inspiring…average people, who love where they live, see the bright side of things, and change their environment without debt….beautiful. I can’t wait to read his book, “All the Way Home: Building a Family in A Falling Down House”.

This is how they found it,

A rogue wisteria in the yard had eaten its way through the side of the house where the chimney met the wood, and was, Mr. Giffels would discover later, wending its way across the attic floor. Inside, a harp stood in a darkened, junk-filled living room. The smell of cat urine was pervasive. The house was not, as everyone had thought, deserted. The inhabitant was an elderly woman, bent over with osteoporosis, who seemed lost in a world of her own. When the Giffelses walked into the solarium, they saw a ceiling rotted to the laths, as well as two chandeliers. As a couple who loved tragic ruins, they didn’t have a chance.

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