SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

 

   
HER HOUSE:
 
Lest you think it unlikely to have a run-down mess among middle class splendor-there is such a house half a mile from my home. Whenever I drive by, I wonder, "what's that story?" Yet the mansion I gave Letty resembles a place I visited on my lunch hour back when my husband and I were first house-hunting. I thought I'd be seeing a carriage house, but I had misread the ad. It HAD a carriage house. And its roof did leak through three floors onto the hall carpet.
  
  
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