Well one family may have unfortunately failed to trade in their adapter, because both father and daughter had to be rescued from a small blaze that the local fire department spokesman attributed to the first generation 'box.

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We used the small amount of money my father had put into a custodial savings account for me to buy a house once we moved.

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Men like him had come through our house from time to time to visit my father, an Anglican bishop in a small city in the east of England.

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He recently moved out of his father's residence, Clarence House -- where he had a bedroom and study -- into a small flat at Kensington Palace where his brother and sister-in-law live.

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