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And I want to go back to the early 90s to Pekipsi, New York.

You know, when I was growing up there every Saturday, basically, my father would get up early

and tinker and work on the house that we lived in. This is Michael Murphy. And that house

was an old Victorian. It was designed by this incredible architect, named Horace Trumbauer.

You know, the kind with shingles and stained glass windows, a big wrap around porch.

But it was kind of falling apart. Yes, sure. It was very drafty.

There was rot and woods. The porch was falling down. There was stained glass that needed to be

fixed. This is my worst nightmare, by the way.

Yeah. But Michael's dad loved it. And slowly restoring this house piece by piece became his

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