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            | RESTORATIONPhase 2
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                of Deck |   
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                  with company at lunch |   
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                        brick fireplace to be replaced by stone and granite) |   
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                  a 
                    room with a view ... of the Barnside and future formal garden
   CENTER 
                    OF OPERATIONS
    
 "A 
                    room without books is like a body without a soul."~ G. K. 
                    CHESTERTON
  
 
                     
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                          RECKLESS 
                            MOTHERPamela Matsuda- Dunn
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                Desk-Library Area |  Bookshelves 
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                "There 
                are artists...who are as much the authors of their millieux as 
                of their work.”~ HILTON KRAMER
  "The 
                only world that won't disappoint me is the one I make up." 
                ~ FRANCIS BACON
                  "My honors are 
                  misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought."
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                            | “Thinking of Cronshaw, 
                                Philip remembered the Persian rug which he had 
                                given him, telling him that it offered an answer 
                                to his question upon the meaning of life; and 
                                suddenly the answer occurred to him: he chuckled: 
                                now that he had it, it was like one of the puzzles 
                                which you worry over till you are shown the solution 
                                and then cannot imagine how it could ever have 
                                escaped you. The answer was obvious. Life had 
                                no meaning.” Of 
                                Human Bondage ~ W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEnglish playwright, novelist and short story writer
 (1874 – 1965)
 
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                          Reckless 
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                                  CHATEAU 
                                    les CHIENS
  January 2013
  August 
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   Fall 2013
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                                  "When 
                                    people ask me, an American expat, what it’s 
                                    like living in Canada, I tell them, 'It’s 
                                    kind of like living in the States,if the States were on lithium.' 
                                    "
 JOHN 
                                    VAILLANTAuthor of “The 
                                    Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”
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                                   Ernest 
                                  Hemmingway's childhood home
 Oak Park, IL
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  Front
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  Carriage House
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  Back Yard & 
                                  Cape 
                                  Blomidon 
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                            front door 
                             
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                                   View: 
                                  Porch to West | 
                                   View: 
                                  Porch to East |  
                             
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   The DOGHOUSE 
                                    North
 WOLFVILLE, 
                                    NOVA SCOTIA
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                                    Furnishings 
                                    not oursAllocations subject to change
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                            Room; 2a-Proposed Library/Gallery; 
                            2b-View from Library/Gallery/Office 
                            into Living Room; 3a-Living 
                            Room;3b-View from Living Room into 
                            Library/Gallery/Office; 4-Kitchen; 
                            5-Master Bedroom; 6-Guest 
                            Room;
 7-Presently Bathroom and small 
                            bedroom to be converted into Bathroom/Dressing Room;
 8-Second Guest Room/Office
 
                             
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                                    Back Yard |  
                             
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                                           Is 
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                                          Arrives
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                                           The 
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                                  Chateau 
                                    les Chiens begins to aquire Character... and get noticed.
  
 
 
                                     
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                                          Recycling 
                                            Rule Book
 
  
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                                    the Ruins  Forever, 
                                    Dogs!Daddy 
                                    Bob's First Puppy Love
 SPOTTY
 a.k.a.
 Texas 
                                    Sunrise Zakawoista II
 
                                     
                                      |  All 
                                          those steps. Baby Frida's gonna lose 
                                          weight. |  Baby 
                                          Frida steals cookie crumbs while Sophie 
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                                  MASTER 
                                    BEDROOM MASTER 
                                    BATHROOM 
                                     
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                                            bathroom 
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                                    CFO HEADQUARTERS    |  
 
                             
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                                    | RESTORATIONPhase 
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  Main 
                                        floor |  Partial 
                                        Site of Deck |   
                                    | BACK 
                                        ENTRANCE WITH DOGGIE DOOR |   
                                    |  Back 
                                        Entrance |  Back 
                                        Entrance Doggie Door |   
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                                          with company at lunch |   
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                                                brick fireplace to be replaced 
                                                by stone and granite) |   
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                                          a 
                                            room with a view ... of the Barnside 
                                            and future formal garden
   CENTER 
                                            OF OPERATIONS
    
 "A 
                                            room without books is like a body 
                                            without a soul."~ 
                                            G. K. CHESTERTON
  
 
                                             
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                                                  RECKLESS 
                                                    MOTHERPamela Matsuda- Dunn
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                                    |  Family 
                                        Room Desk-Library Area |  Bookshelves 
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                                        "There 
                                        are artists...who are as much the authors 
                                        of their millieux as of their work.”~ HILTON KRAMER
  "The 
                                        only world that won't disappoint me is 
                                        the one I make up." 
                                        ~ FRANCIS BACON
                                          "My 
                                          honors are misunderstanding, pesecution 
                                          and neglect, enhanced because unsought."
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                                                    | “Thinking 
                                                        of Cronshaw, Philip remembered 
                                                        the Persian rug which 
                                                        he had given him, telling 
                                                        him that it offered an 
                                                        answer to his question 
                                                        upon the meaning of life; 
                                                        and suddenly the answer 
                                                        occurred to him: he chuckled: 
                                                        now that he had it, it 
                                                        was like one of the puzzles 
                                                        which you worry over till 
                                                        you are shown the solution 
                                                        and then cannot imagine 
                                                        how it could ever have 
                                                        escaped you. The answer 
                                                        was obvious. Life had 
                                                        no meaning.” Of 
                                                        Human Bondage ~ 
                                                        W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEnglish playwright, novelist 
                                                        and short story writer
 (1874 – 1965)
 
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                                            |    Reckless 
                                                Mother
                                                Book 
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 FOYER 
                                                  AND STAIRWAYFlora 
                                                  from Boobie Garden
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                                                Enter 
                                                  Flora 
                                                  Bob! 
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 VISITORS' 
                                          POWDER ROOM 
                                           
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                                                Photography |  David Frawley & 
                                                Daniel C. Dugan |  
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                                  DECK & GARDEN |   
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 FOR 
                                    THE  OF DOG 
 BOOBIE 
                                    DECK AND GARDEN 
     NEW 
                                    BFF, SIMONE TWINKLENOSE
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                                          LABOUR(Før 
                                          a F¢¢)
  Andrew 
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                                    Snow23 November 2011
 
   
 
  
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                                            there...!
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                                    tout!
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                                      | RESTORATION
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                                  Views 
                                    from the Master Toilet |  
                             
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                                    from Bed 
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                                     Morning 
                                    at the Dining Room
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                                  Going 
                                    nuts staring at blank walls?HANG 
                                    ART!
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                                  Living 
                                    Room(pre-restoration)
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                                    set for stage 3)
    
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                                  Stairwell 
                                    & Landings(partly 
                                    restored)
  
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                                    Bedroom
    
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                                   Since 
                                    Thanksgiving 
                                    in the States 
                                    is end of November and beginning 
                                    of October in Canada 
                                    and our plan is to come up each year around 
                                    Halloween,
  
                                    I believe we've seen our last.  Waiting 
                                    for Gobbleot
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                                  THANKSGIVING 
                                    2012 
                                    WITH JEAN AND DARYL DE WOLF IN WOLFVILLE  
                                     
                                      | “We 
                                          invite each other not to eat and drink, 
                                          but to eat and drink together.”
                                          ~ 
                                          PLUTARCH
 |  KITCHEN 
                                    UNVEILING27 
                                    October 2013
 
                                     
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                                      | Guests 
                                        Present ~ Paul Callaghan, Jean and 
                                        Darryl DeWolf, Stephen Drahos, Lella 
                                        Gmainer, ?????, Debbie 
                                        and Terry Hines, 
                                        Mary and Michael Howell, Mary Ann and 
                                        Tony Marissink, Greg and Marjorie McNeill, 
                                        Susan Meldrum, David Smart, Janice Wells
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 FIRST 
                                    SCOTIA GROOMING29 
                                    November 2012
 
                                     
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                                      | "Mind 
                                          you, Michelle (our 
                                          NEW bootishun Up North), we's 
                                          no Scotties. 
                                          We's SCHNOOZERS! | Check 
                                          out Fancy 
                                          Pawz Roamin' Salon
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                                    Crew's Xmas at Paddy's 2012
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                                      | FOR 
                                          THE  OF DOG Phase 
                                            1 ~ INTERIOR SECTION*  
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                                           BOOBIE PARK 
                                            NORTH IS BORN
 
  
  
                                             Future 
                                            Boobie Park Development |   
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                                            TOTAL 
                                            BOOBIE PARK NORTH AREA 
                                            (when finished):9,400 square feet
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 Over 
                                    the Dikes
  Blomidon 
                                    in the Distance
 
  
 
  
 
   Chateau 
                                    les Chiens from The Dikes Doggie Trail
 This is Our New Dogrun!
 
  
 Off 
                                    Leash and on the Prowl 
 
 Sophie 
                                    longs to run across them mud flats at low 
                                    tide 
  
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                              | The 
                                  Carriage 
                                  House
   ATELIER
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  COURTESY 
                            OF OUR TENANTS GEOFF & TRACI CROUSE
 
 
                             
                              |  17 
                                  JANUARY 2014 |  
                             
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                              |  | Canadian 
                                Lawyer - LEE COHEN |  
                             
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                                      |  | "America 
                                          is the only country that wentfrom barbarism to decadence
 without civilization in between."
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                                          OSCAR WILDE
 
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                              |  Annapolis 
                                  Basin 
 
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                                          Funnel 
                                            shaped BAY 
                                            of FUNDY, between 
                                            the coasts of Nova Scotia 
                                            and Maine, has the 
                                            widest tidal range 
                                            in the world, 55 feet. 
                                            From high tide to low tide, water 
                                            levels rise or fall 55 feet, 
                                            leaving wide open mud flats where 
                                            there was ocean just hours before. The 
                                            sudden change in the direction of 
                                            the tide from low to high twice a 
                                            day creates a wave called the Tidal 
                                            Bore that fills in the Annapolis 
                                            Basin, a phenomenon that 
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                              | The 
                                  Minas Basin from Blomidon
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                              | The 
                                  Anapolis Valley from Blomidon
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                                          A 
                                            BRIEF HISTORY
  Although 
                                            Sieur De Monts and 
                                            Samuel de Champlain 
                                            established a trading post at Port-Royal 
                                            in 1605 
                                            in what was then New France, 
                                            the French hold over Acadia 
                                            was fragile and intermittent until 
                                            1632 when the Treaty 
                                            of St. Germain-en-Laye confirmed 
                                            French possession of the region. During 
                                            the early 1630s, almost three hundred 
                                            French immigrants arrived in the Port-Royal 
                                            area.  With a high birth rate 
                                            and low infant mortality, the population 
                                            reached approximately 500 people in 
                                            1671, 1,400 in 1707, and about 13,000 
                                            people in the early 1750s.  From 
                                            the initial core at Port-Royal, Acadian 
                                            settlement spread around the Bay 
                                            of Fundy as well as onto 
                                            Île Saint-Jean (Prince 
                                            Edward Island) and to Pentagoet 
                                            at the mouth of the Penobscot 
                                            River in Maine. The 
                                            population depended on mixed farming 
                                            and raising livestock and crops from 
                                            dyked marshes.  At 
                                            the Treaty of Utrecht in 
                                            1713, much of the 
                                            area settled by the Acadians was transferred 
                                            to the British who called 
                                            the territory   
                                            Nova Scotia. 
                                            The 
                                            British strengthened Port-Royal, renaming 
                                            it Annapolis 
                                            Royal, and then, 
                                            in 1749, constructed 
                                            a fortified town at Halifax; 
                                             With 
                                            the outbreak of the French 
                                            and Indian War (Seven Years War) 
                                            in 1754, concerned 
                                            at the large Acadian presence in the 
                                            hinterland of Halifax and aware that 
                                            many Acadians had refused to swear 
                                            loyalty to the British crown, the 
                                            military governor of Nova Scotia took 
                                            the fateful decision to clear the 
                                            Acadians from their settlements. A 
                                            defining moment in the history of 
                                            the Acadian people, the deportation 
                                            also changed irrevocably the human 
                                            geography of what is today Canada’s 
                                            Maritime Provinces.  
                                                   The 
                                            deportation of the Acadians from Nova 
                                            Scotia and adjacent areas was to points 
                                            around the Atlantic rim. Acadians 
                                            were shipped to many points around 
                                            the Atlantic.  Large numbers 
                                            were deported to the continental colonies, 
                                            others to France.  Some managed 
                                            to escape to New France (Quebec).  
                                            A handful arrived in the Upper 
                                            Saint John Valley.  
                                            Many moved several times; a great 
                                            number left the American colonies 
                                            at the end of the war and returned 
                                            to Nova Scotia; many of those in France 
                                            moved to the French Caribbean 
                                            or  to Louisiana, 
                                            where they formed the basis 
                                            of the Cajun 
                                            population. Those 
                                            Acadians who returned to Nova Scotia 
                                            in the 1780s and 1790s found their 
                                            former settlements occupied by American 
                                            settlers and Loyalists.  As a 
                                            result, the Acadians occupied new 
                                            areas in western Nova Scotia, 
                                            Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward 
                                            Island, the eastern shore of New Brunswick, 
                                            and the Gaspé Peninsula.  
                                            In these areas, they drew a living 
                                            from farming, inshore fishing, lumbering, 
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                                          ROYAL RECONSTRUCTION |  
                                     
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  The 
                                          National Historic Site at Grand-Pré
 commemorates the 1755 deportation of 
                                          Acadians by the British and Henry 
                                          Wadsworth Longfellow’s 
                                          famous 1847 tragic poem, Evangeline, 
                                          about the separation of two lovers as 
                                          a result of the expulsion.
 
 
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                                  Statue 
                                    ofEVANGELINE
 at
 Grand Pré National Historic Site
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                                  Wolfville 
                                    is the home of ACADIA 
                                    UNIVERSITY, where Mommy 
                                    Cindy went to college to become a 
                                    kem'stry sintist. 
                                    It's one of the top schools in Nova 
                                    Scochah, Canada (north of the border). Then 
                                    she met Daddy Bob....
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                                  We
  Woofs!
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 Daddy 
                                    Bob's ClubHome away from Home
  
 
  Danny 
                                    & Michael
 
 
 
  ... 
                                    prisoner of his own device ....
 
 
 
  
 
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                                  Joe's 
                                    Food Emporium, Pub & Eatery
  ...and 
                                    alternate 'Club'
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                                    The Port Pub / Sea Level BREWING 
                                    
   A 
                                    relassssing 
                                    place to watch the tides..., innn..., out.
  "... watching the ti-ide roll a-wa-ayyy 
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                                   THE 
                                    GYM AT ACADIA UNIVERSITY
 where Mommy Cindy is an aluminum
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 Every 
                                    conceivable convenienceto be enjoyed
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                                   What 
                                    happens to bicyclists who ride on sidewalks
 makes Daddy Bob VERY 
                                    happy.
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                                  Fresh 
                                  Seafood Steam Sealed at Supermarket
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                                          Been 
                                            reading up on'Spiritual' matters that
 matter in CANADA.
 Click 
                                            √ 
                                            above for info
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                                          New 
                                            kid in townNew discovery
 Microbrewed in Halifax
 Click 
                                            √ 
                                            above for info
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                                   Don't sweat it over The 
                                    DOGHOUSE 1. It's 
                                    our FOREVER 
                                    HOME.
 
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                              | ROBERT 
                                  COANE 2013 © All rights reserved |        Pamela Matsuda-Dunn
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 FOYER 
                          AND STAIRWAYFlora 
                          from Boobie Garden
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                        Enter 
                          Flora 
                          Bob! 
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 VISITORS' 
                  POWDER ROOM 
                   
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                    |  Powder Room Figure Photography |  David Frawley & Daniel C. Dugan |  
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