They were not.

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They were not.

The house was worse than she remembered. The ivy had consumed the south wall entirely, turning the white brick green and then brown, the vegetation slowly eating the masonry the way time eats everything. The roof sagged. The windows were clouded with decades of unpainted neglect. And the smell -- the smell of damp wood and old paper and something else, something organic and slow, like a forest...

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