Big Ugly Houses - and Smaller Well Designed Houses

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Originally Posted by beachboy

The great Michigan poet Edgar Guest wrote:

"Home ain't a place that gold can buy or get up in a minute;
Afore it's home there's got t' be a heap o' livin' in it ..."

[["Home", by Edgar Guest, at http://sofinesjoyfulmoments.com/quotes/heapoliv.htm)

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I don't know if heaps of living went on in Edgar Guest's own rather somber home on Hamilton Road in Detroit but he must have written heaps of poetry to buy it.

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Originally Posted by A2Mike

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I don't know if heaps of living went on in Edgar Guest's own rather somber home on Hamilton Road in Detroit but he must have written heaps of poetry to buy it.

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Before he bought the house on Hamilton, he lived on Atkinson Avenue between Byron & Woodrow Wilson.

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