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Now you'll be thinking that this is a joke, and it isn't. Behind the rather nice two-story rural frame house where my father was born and raised, stood (and stand) two well-built brick outstructures, side by side, that were used before that area's increased water supply allowed conversion to indoor plumbing. Let me emphasize how neat and tidy and square they were. When I visited as a boy, I admired their symmetry, and masonry, and the way the shingled roofs and white-painted molding underneath them merged with the brickwork. I eventually asked what they were used for. An aunt told what they had been, and how their understructure had been thoroughly decommissioned, filled-in, and refurbished to serve as storage sheds for yard tools. Waste not, want not.
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