My old house, after a dozen years of hosting this family, can never be restored to its former glory.

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Even now, when I close my eyes, I can picture my old house, which seemed to shrink each day under the weight of poverty.

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Tenant Rachel MacMillan says fuel poverty hasn't been an issue for her even in the winter "My bills have halved since moving here in November, compared to what they were in my old house" She says.

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All that I retain in my head of the house in town is the wallpaper with Teddy bears in my old room.

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"I am not going outside my house at all, " a 21-year-old college student from Tehran said.

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"Look at the condition of my house, " said Lin Feng, a 45-year-old Lushan resident, pointing to her heavily damaged home.

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"I can't make my wife cook in the old kitchen and bring the food over to the main house, " he says.

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My friends, when I was 5 years old, a car pulled up in front of our house.

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This system of teaching the necessary skills for the game has enabled my seven year old to plant pea shooters and sunflowers much faster than zombies can move toward his house.

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When I got to the office, my face was scrutinized by my co-workers with the intensity of an appraiser checking the foundation of a 150-year-old house.

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