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Odays we would pop in a piano roll, pump the pedals and pretend we were virtuosos. Some days my brother and I would bang on the keys. It had a large front porch, ornate wooden carvings, velvet drapes in the living room, a grand staircase, maids' quarters, fireplaces in the bedrooms, pull chain toilets, secret passageways, a true butler's pantry.Īnd an old fashioned player piano in the den. They lived in the most glorious old home and even though it was 1975 on the outside, the inside had been frozen in time somewhere around 1945.Įven as a child, I knew the house was something special. When I was a little girl, every summer, my mom would pack us into our old Country Squire station wagon and take us on a road trip to visit my grandparents.
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