"I worked 25 years without having my own house and at this age, thank God, I'm able to own my own home, " Garzon said.

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If I sign up for the installation at the local Home Depot, can I store some power in my house and use it during outages?

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Normally on October 31, my twin brother and I would step out of our shotgun house and rush to every home within a three-block radius.

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Daughter number two has just got home and on stepped into a wi-fi perimeter I created around my house, prompting her phone to text mine.

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And so the fact that we are not permitted to see, for example, the coffins that are arriving back home - that the Pentagon and the White House blocks that - and my one personal opinion, as a newsmaker, I think that's a horrible thing in terms of, you know, every town reports when a soldier has been slain in Iraq, you know, tragically, but we're not actually seeing what's going on.

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With bare countertops and minimal furniture, my staged home looks spacious but also like every other house for sale.

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Sure, it would be nice for my children to associate the rich aroma of simmering stews and roasts with coming home to their own house, as I did when I was young.

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That evening, laughter was heard from my house for the first time in a long while, as we admired the commendation certificate and prizes my brother had brought home.

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First at a buddy's house, then in my garage for 13 years, and then, as my wife and I set about an historic home restoration (obviously I never learn) in my mother's garage for the last five.

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