From: practice@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 04/25/2013 03:06 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , Adam wrote:   
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   >   
   >> I know she sold the house next to hers (across from my parents), which   
   >> is one way of ensuring nice neighbors.  I still think of that house as   
   >> the one with the fast turnover because it's gone through five families   
   >> in under 50 years.   
   >   
   > Obviously the "lemon" of the neighborhood.   We don't see all that much   
   > turn-over.  We're one of the six (of 54) non-original owners (built in   
   > 90/91).  Three of the six were sold twice in that period - snowbirds   
   > who bought in the late winter/early spring - and (likely) later learned   
   > that it gets kinda warm here in high summer.   ;-)   
   >   
   >          Old guy   
   >   
      
   About 6 months ago, I noticed that we are the "senior" residents on the   
   block. Over the last24 years, we have seen occupants come and go, some   
   stay a few months, others stay for a few years. The second oldest   
   residents have been here about 18 years.   
   The people that we bought our house from lived here for the previous 35   
   years. For the next 2 or 3 years *after* the gentleman sold to us, he   
   came over once a year and ask if he could polish the brass door knobs   
   and switch plates in exchange for some raspberries that he had planted   
   years before.   
   Finally he passed, and his wife was put into assisted living about 3   
   blocks away from here because she had Alzheimer's. One Sunday morning we   
   got a phone call from 'the home' wanting to know if Helen was here as   
   she had come up missing. "Yes, she is, but could you wait a while before   
   coming to get her as she is telling us stories of This Old House and her   
   family and the neighborhood, etc!"   
   They came by about an hour later. That was the last time we saw her.   
      
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