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HISTORIC ACCESS: If we may be almost disturbingly frank for a moment: We enjoy being in strangers' houses. If we could choose one super-human power, it would be to have the ability to turn invisible, and not for the usual reasons (to watch people taking a bath; to steal and amass toasters) but just to have a look around random houses and maybe make catty remarks, like "Omigod, they carpeted their kitchen?" or "What kind of person paints cherubs on the ceiling in a Cliff May house?"
It's why we've always failed in our repeated attempts to be a home burglar; we invariably stayed too long, checking out all the rooms, sniggering ceaselessly even as the police dragged us away, silverware and candlesticks clattering to the concrete as it cascaded from our overcoat: "Seriously, you fellas ever seen anything as tacky as that needlepointed 'Footprints in the Sand' over the water closet in the half-bath?"See the full content of this document
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Of course, there are homes in Long Beach that are, thanks to brilliant architecture and inspired renovation and decoration, immune to our cunning...
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