1. The house in which my parents lived when I was born was to the left of the green arrow. It has been swallowed by a community college.
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2. The house to which my parents moved when I was about 18 months old.
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3. My parents then moved to this house for a year.
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4. They then bought this house (the first they owned), and lived there four years.
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5. Then there's this bigger house that my parents owned and lived in for 37 years. I went off to college while they lived there.
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6. I lived in this dormitory during my freshman and sophomore years at Big-Ten U.
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7. I shared an apartment during my junior year. The house, which was only a block from campus, seems to have been replaced by a parking lot.
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8. As a senior, I had a room in a decrepit house several blocks from campus. It seems to have been replaced by a commercial building of some kind.
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9. During my brief tenure at an eastern grad school -- from which I withdrew because I could not stand it -- I shared an apartment in this building.
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10. On my return to Big-Ten U for the balance of the academic year, I had a room in a house just a few blocks from campus. The site seems to have been taken over by an office building and parking lot.
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11. This building housed my first apartment in Virginia, where I went to work after leaving grad school. I had the aparttment for a year.
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12. My wife and I lived in this apartment building for the first year of our marriage.
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13. We then lived in this building for two years.
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14. We rented this house for two years.
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15. And then we had this house built, and lived there for seven years. I have cropped the photo to encompass, roughly, the 4+ acre lot on which the house sits. A later owner enclosed the deck and screened porch that I single-handedly added to the house. (The enclosed addition can be seen the lower-right corner of the house.) The pond at the lower left corner of photo was added by a later owner; we kept a garden in that location.
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16. During our sojourn in New York State we rented this house for about two years.
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17. We then bought and lived in this house for about a year before returning to Virginia. (For more about this house, see "My Old Sears Home.")
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18. We lived in this parkside house for 24 years -- long enough to enlarge it by about 50 percent and thoroughly renovate the original portion, inside and out. Our real-estate agent listed it as "the jewel on the park."
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19. Three years ago we opted for the warmth and sunshine of central Texas, where we were lucky enough to find this house on a wooded hillside lot.
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Finally, there's Grandma's house. Luckily the satellite shot of her village was taken before the house was torn down to make way for a much larger house.
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