This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place.

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Two weeks later, Obie walked up to Julian where he was working on an old gray Royal on the front porch and told him that he had an appointment with the doctor on Wednesday.

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The night was warm and Julian turned in his damp sheets, waking briefly at gray dawn and hearing someone walking, inside and out.

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CNN's Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank, Deborah Feyerick, Pamela Brown, Julian Cummings, Barbara Starr, Ann O'Neill, Melissa Gray, Susan Candiotti, Tom Watkins, Jake Tapper, Shannon Travis and Drew Griffin contributed to this report.

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