Oh well now this is a pleasant surprise

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Didja ever wake up in the morning and go outside, only to discover that your front porch steps have been demolished to rubble and you hadn't been aware that such a thing was going to happen?



Man, I hate days like that.

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I did come home from school once to find my parents had knocked down our internal staircase. They talked for a while about my sister and I having to use a ladder on the outside of the house to get up there.

Turns out, there was a secret staircase hidden in a cupboard by the Victorians which we'd lived with and not known about and they'd fixed that one up instead. It was very exciting to open a door which had previously been a blank bit of wall and find a part of the house we'd never seen before.

Uh, so the short answer is, no. But stuff like that happened about four or five times a year because my parents are HILARIOUS like that.

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I must see this house of yours!

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That is an awesome house. When I was a kid we almost moved into a 200-year-old house that was rumored to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, and if you swung a bookcase back you'd find a secret, unfinished hidden chamber with dirt floor and exposed brick walls and entirely too little light.

It's just as well my parents didn't buy that house. My brothers and I probably would have played The Amontillado Game and shut each other in that room over and over and over again until one of us came down with acute claustrophobia.