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Article: Southern Journal: Discovering Mother's dream house.(Southern Living)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- June 30, 2002
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I guess most females grow up with visions of a perfect home. Nearly every Southern schoolgirl knows that the dream starts in a cedar chest and ends in a hutch of her own. Yet that dream is elusive; the work is never complete. Just when you think you've captured it, something new catches your eye-a different paint color pulls you in, a classy couch calls your name, a brass light fixture glows seductively.
My mom had a dream house, but it wasn't on Main Street. It was in a tattered blue box.
"I'm passing this on to you," she said, as she placed the box in my hands. "I guess I never really got my dream house, but maybe there is something here ...