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"...It was late summer before they even walked up to the dusty attic. They'd gone through piles of bills dating back 40 years, all marked paid and neatly filed in an old breakfront in the library. Two sets of Encyclopedia Brittanica (copyright 1942 and 1964) had been donated to the reluctant librarian in town. Piles of moth-eaten clothes had been tossed into the dumpster that now seemed a permanent part of the yard. Fresh paint, refinsished floors brought life back to the old house. Opening the door to the third story attic, they......."