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My deep dark secrets.

When I was first married to my husband, I threw away all of his ugly socks that I didn't like.

His friend's wife told me to do it because she did it to her husband when she got married.

It's man of ass.

Somewhere in Illinois, there's a mention that was built in the early 1900s.

It sits in a green leafy neighborhood with a bunch of other grandhouses on large lots.

They're not McMansions though.

You know, those wealth monuments that squeeze onto infill lots in suburban neighborhoods.

Nope.

These houses are can back to an earlier age when perhaps life was a little simpler, a little less chaotic.

You can see the age in the neighborhood a bit.

The mansions are kept up, but some have been subdivided.

The streets pavement needs some repair, but it's still a lovely place today.

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