"Our old house was a little bigger, but this one is stronger, " he says.

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And the walls are much thicker than our old house, or even those new houses that CRS is building over there.

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When we first moved there, Caro talked to me a lot about our old house, trying to get me to remember this or that.

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We used the equity from our old house to pay off three small auto loans and to make a 35% down payment on our new house.

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She hid the dog under her coat on the school bus, and then, instead of going straight to school, she took Blitzee back to our old house in town, which was less than a block away.

NEWYORKER: Gravel

Our old house had mice.

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"I did indeed watch the second half of the Super Bowl at the beach house with our 14-year-old son because as a father I didn't think he should watch it alone, " Sanford said.

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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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For us children, she came with the evening, which carried us back to the house, but she was also the old woman we locked our doors against, protecting ourselves from a night that she seemed to bewitch.

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"We are so thankful that our baby and eight-year-old daughter are with family in Cape Town and were not in the house at the time of the fire, " he said.

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Our local universities are breaking ground for new facilities to house tenured professors who love using 10-year-old case studies to predict the future.

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