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[leighsala]

Living in the same house for your entire life tends to give one a strange entwined sense of continuity and discontinuity, of the familiar made strange. Driving home tonight from dropping off Chrissy and Dendro (who I haven't seen in forever and, *love*), listening to some terribly alternative song playing on triple J that I would never have thought

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[sartorias]

I've always wondered what it is like to live one's life in one house: does one move from room to room as one's status in the family changes, that is, from kids to adult to older adult? Especially if a new generation of kids appears?

[leighsala]

Well, I've only moved rooms once, when I swapped the shoe-box for the one I'm currently in (my brother was overcome with a bout of altruism when I was in grade five, I think.) When my parents moved out--they have a retirement house on the coast--my brother moved into their old bedroom from said shoe-box. No new generation yet, thank god!