Its fridge is now empty and the grills cold.

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The house, cold, empty and boarded up, was a wooden Dutch Colonial at the edge of the water.

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But these days, he suggests, that hearth is cold and empty.

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That winter, I packed a suitcase and took an empty, overheated Greyhound bus to the state mental hospital, where I trudged through blinding drifts of cold and was shown to a room in a staff dormitory.

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