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Patty
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Feb 20 2012, 7:10pm
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I'm beginning to feel alone calling it the "front room" here in Indy. I must train myself to call it the living room. But this is kind of like saying "ice box" or "refrigerator" , although, of course, there is historical precedence and accuracy to say ice box. We still call it that, though, even though that term was no longer accurate even when I was born, almost 62 years ago.
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What do you call this room?
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Patty
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Feb 14 2012, 8:08pm
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Here in the UK (I don't know where you are from Patty)
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DanielLB
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Feb 14 2012, 8:15pm
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Call it a living room here
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acheron
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Feb 14 2012, 8:44pm
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I grew up
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DanielLB
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Feb 14 2012, 8:49pm
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I'm thinking front room is "Southern"
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Patty
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Feb 14 2012, 9:16pm
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Never heard "front room" in NC, VA, TN, GA, or AL.
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Elizabeth
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Feb 14 2012, 11:34pm
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My grandma said "front room", but she was from Montana.
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Feb 15 2012, 2:34pm
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indeed the US
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acheron
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Feb 15 2012, 4:28am
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That explains it. My mom was from London, Kentucky!
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 5:34am
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My sister lives in Manchester!
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Magpie
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Feb 15 2012, 5:48am
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Parlor?
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dernwyn
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Feb 15 2012, 12:54am
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'Other'
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silneldor
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Feb 15 2012, 2:57am
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I guess I was raised by weirdos...
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Hamfast
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Feb 15 2012, 3:42am
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Definitely weirdos...
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Feb 15 2012, 2:39pm
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I figured as much...
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Hamfast
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Feb 15 2012, 3:03pm
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Open floor plan, and thoughts on "front" room...
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 6:42pm
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I always assumed that it was called the front room
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 6:51pm
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Yes, and it's in the front of the house because...
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 8:00pm
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Attached garages?
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 8:05pm
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What's a terraced house? Is it like...
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 8:10pm
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If you've ever seen Coronation Street?
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 8:11pm
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Yeah, I looked it up...
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 8:17pm
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I'm not a fan of Corrie....
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 8:43pm
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oh, okay.
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 8:45pm
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Now Eastenders I watch
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 8:50pm
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We have one
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Nightingale
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Feb 15 2012, 10:16pm
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I LIKE open floor plans! :)
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HappyHobbitess
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Apr 6 2012, 1:21pm
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Some people around here have dens.
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RosieLass
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Feb 15 2012, 9:35pm
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All this talk of houses
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 9:39pm
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That sounds like what we call the "family room."
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 10:14pm
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Depends
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sevilodorf
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Feb 15 2012, 3:55am
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Living room--ours was actually in back of the house
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Gwytha
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Feb 15 2012, 4:10am
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"jockey box"?
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acheron
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Feb 15 2012, 4:26am
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You bet!
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Gwytha
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Feb 15 2012, 4:29am
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My dad was born and raised in south Texas and called it a jockey box, too! //
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Feb 15 2012, 2:29pm
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A Jockey Box is something I've NEVER heard. /
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 6:28pm
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Neither have I !
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 6:37pm
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Me, neither.
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RosieLass
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Feb 15 2012, 9:32pm
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Same thing as a glove compartment.
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Gwytha
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Feb 16 2012, 3:32am
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Should be renamed
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DanielLB
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Feb 16 2012, 9:50am
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Maps are dead.. .haven't you heard?
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Magpie
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Feb 16 2012, 11:35am
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Never!
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DanielLB
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Feb 16 2012, 1:14pm
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A GPS? What's that?
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dernwyn
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Feb 16 2012, 5:19pm
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Maps, atlas, and state gazeteer for every vehicle! =)
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Feb 20 2012, 7:31pm
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Well, they are pretty old maps...
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Gwytha
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Feb 16 2012, 8:33pm
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This is getting curiouser and curiouser
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Gwytha
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Feb 15 2012, 8:48pm
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Either living room or front room
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Magpie
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Feb 15 2012, 5:53am
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Yes it is the same/similar
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 9:16am
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I thought some of you Brits called lunch "dinner"
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 6:31pm
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Lunch can also be called dinner
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 6:39pm
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I believe so
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Nightingale
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Feb 15 2012, 7:51pm
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Similar situation
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 8:02pm
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I think I read where high tea is interchangable with dinner....
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Patty
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Feb 15 2012, 8:04pm
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Not heard of high tea
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DanielLB
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Feb 15 2012, 8:13pm
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I always thought
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Nightingale
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Feb 15 2012, 10:18pm
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supper
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titanium_hobbit
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Feb 19 2012, 5:54am
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Dinner/supper, front room/back room let's call the whole thing off?
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Gwytha
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Feb 15 2012, 3:57pm
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Dinner is the big meal of the day
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dernwyn
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Feb 15 2012, 4:49pm
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Yes, that's how I remembered it.
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Elizabeth
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Feb 20 2012, 12:35am
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Mine is a "great room", but we always said "living room".
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Feb 15 2012, 2:31pm
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If I'm allowed...
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Faenoriel
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Feb 15 2012, 2:58pm
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Living room.
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RosieLass
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Feb 15 2012, 9:30pm
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Typical of kids in my area and time,
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Feb 20 2012, 7:04pm
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Where are you from, Eowyn?
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Patty
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Feb 20 2012, 7:10pm
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I'm a south-central PA, Mason-Dixon Liner. //
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Feb 20 2012, 7:25pm
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Living Room, which is a bit strange
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Elberbeth
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Feb 24 2012, 8:32pm
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Since we built the family room, we're not in the living room as often...
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Patty
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Feb 24 2012, 9:37pm
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"that room over there."
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HappyHobbitess
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Apr 6 2012, 1:25pm
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