Lol this is right up my alley. I'm infinitely interested in people and their lives. My version of this is going to estate sales. Often families just open the doors and allow a home to be dug through. I've seen some people up really close over the years. Once I was in Minneapolis and spent an hour in the deceased's basement where there was a hidden stack of old letters to the husband's secret lover. I'm assume he had to hide his homosexuality because of the social climate of his day. Another time I explore the home of a fascinating artist who loved photography and traveled the world. Recently I went to the estate auction of an old Appalachian family's farm where they kept everything impeccably neat, clean, and tidy. I love to see the quilts and such of grandmothers. For many of them it was their outlet for self expression. Oh, and one time I went to the sale of an old Appalachian family of hoarders! I got there late in the sale. They had bins of old happy meal toys and everything you can imagine. They kept everything! And the most interesting part is I was told that earlier in the day people were walking away with purses full of coins! Appalachian people used to live very much cut off from the rest of the world, as they were up high in the mountains, and it was very hard to get here. So in many ways they were 100 years behind the rest of American society. You can find people living the old way still to this day. They didn't trust banks; they buried money in the ground, and hid it in books and such! And many people actually had quite a lot of money yet they lived simply and were extremely self sufficient. (ha ha it felt good to share all that. I'm passionate about it, and there aren't many other people who are, so I took my opportunity to share with someone else who appreciates this up close look at people's lives!)
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