"Oh yes, that house", says Sheila. "Frank and I bought it, very cheap actually, from the city, since around that time they had appropriated a number of delinquent properties. It was an old house, built near the turn of the century, and big. Eight bedrooms, and situated on a triple lot, so there was lots of space for the garden. It had rather a square, boxy shape, with a dormer window on each side of the roof, so there were four bedrooms in the attic. I had actually always lived in that neighbourhood, having grown up in another house almost across the street. The house originally belonged to a Portuguese family that had immigrated here in the 1890's. They were actually from the Azores, that cluster of islands in the mid Atlantic. The house was once part of a much larger property, which they farmed and had a marvellous apple orchard. And after they subdivided it all into smaller lots and built houses on them, that was the one surviving tree."
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