While the house is not scheduled to reopen as an art gallery for another two years, the parkland and empty galleries will be open for the public from two weeks on Saturday.

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They routinely refill personal toiletries, (if your toothpaste is nearly empty they get you a new one), the in-house bathroom amenities are exceptional, and they provide an eyeglass cleaning cloth if you leave your glasses on the nightstand or bathroom counter, again, something I have never seen.

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Joan Barry is approaching 70-years-old and still lives in her house amongst the empty properties, with all the heartache that brings.

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Our family house is in a village outside Kabul but we can't go there, so the house stands empty.

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For dual-earner families, the benefit of putting a school near a workplace -- rather than near an empty house -- is obvious.

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