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Watch this: Mammy and Pappy lived up in the holler in a rickety house us kids loved in summer.

Watch this: Mamaw and Papaw lived over near Holyrood in a rickety house on the edge of the great Western Interior Seaway. Us kids hated it in summer, with the heat and wind and nothing but horizon and flat, baked earth

Watch this: Grandma and Grandpa lived in a Sears Lewiston home in Amherst, Mass, a creaky little cottage—the house, though Amherst is not without its own creaky, cottagey aspects—with not much room for us kids, regardless of season. 

Watch this: Grandmama and Grandpapa lived in quiet luxury outside Danbury. Their Tudor home perched atop a rolling glade and surveyed verdant acres of maple, sassafras and poplar. We couldn’t wait to visit in summer, and often whispered indignant conversations in the dead of night wondering why on earth our parents had chosen to live in Florida.