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omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 351.

A.C. 2830, certificate number 25380 Dingbat apartments.

I used to live in a two-room apartment.

Neighbors'

back in it on my wall. So we have talked quite a bit about mid-century architecture and culture and

and things on this program and it's not just because I recently bought a house that was that was built in

1953. I feel like it's the other way around you bought that house because you're

interested in the period. Yeah and it was not a period that I that I grew up being interested in because when I was a kid in the 70s all that

1955 stuff was just exactly in the sweet spot of like this is old dusty and not kept up. I used to like looking at

my parents old like elementary school readers where you could see Dick and Jane

with their with their freshly ironed clothes having freshly scrubbed

adventures and even though it was only 20 years old it just seemed like another planet that

was hilarious like look they have chums, you know?

So I can totally see that about fashion as well.

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