It was a series of odd circumstances that put me in the garage attic with all the junk furniture and the raccoon droppings which is how I began to leave her, all unknowing, of course whereas I could have walked in the door as I had done every evening after work in the fourteen years and two children of our marriage.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

If you believe that 'Progress' with a capital P is over, put your money in gold and fill your garage with food.

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And if you're also storing big items like lawn mowers, ladders, bicycles and garbage cans, a garage is far more convenient in terms of access than a storage room, even if the builder happened to put in French or patio doors where the garage doors normally are.

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Some people put this down to a growing and increasingly affluent population, with the three-car garage becoming the norm in suburbia.

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