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DFW

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17. I probably have one somewhere.
Fri May 10, 2024, 01:06 PM
May 2024

When a place was your home (or parents’ home) for 45 years, it becomes so familiar, you never think of it as some landmark worthy of photographing.

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What an eloquent remembrance, my dear DFW! CaliforniaPeggy May 2024 #1
Must have been an enjoyable reminiscence. cachukis May 2024 #2
The house I mostly grew up in... Archae May 2024 #3
This is what it looks like now DFW May 2024 #4
that's a beautiful house onethatcares May 2024 #5
They must have stuck a fortune into the place DFW May 2024 #6
wow! AllaN01Bear May 2024 #8
Yes, the people who bought it seemed to have plenty of money to sink into it DFW May 2024 #9
one nice thing , unlike here i could walk all over the place or i could take the bus all over the place. AllaN01Bear May 2024 #10
How beautiful. Even remodeled & gussied up, I can tell that house started with lovely bones. Hekate May 2024 #12
A beautiful house, for sure. malthaussen May 2024 #14
I probably have one somewhere. DFW May 2024 #17
i have seen my childhood home via google earth. the house has been modded and remodded several times . AllaN01Bear May 2024 #7
I grew up in a little GI bill tract house that my parents bought when I was two. My father was a laborer who never... NNadir May 2024 #11
Mine was a 3 bedroom/1 bath built in 1948. LudwigPastorius May 2024 #13
I don't have anywhere where I could say "I grew up" malthaussen May 2024 #15
The other way around for me DFW May 2024 #19
The house I grew up in was on the poor side of Emile May 2024 #16
That house I grew up in wasn't even in a neighborhood when my parents built it. DFW May 2024 #20
The magical places of my childhood have been obliterated by wealthy white people. hunter May 2024 #18
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