All very familiar to me also. When my parents bought the house they have now they had to keep renting their old house for 8 months while they were figuring out how to get all their stuff moved out of the rental house. The first house they bought was condemned when they moved out. Since my father was in the Air Force and we moved frequently, I guess that kept any one house from getting as bad as Dexter's dad's house, but not by much.

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<font color=green>"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible" Carl Jung</font color=green>