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In our ‘breakfast room’ there was a sliding door that opened to the deck and backyard. When I was 9 or 10, a curtain was installed to help keep the draft out. I remember it being laid out in the living room so we could string strings through little O-rings in the hopes that it would raise and lower. But the fabric (vertical stripes in late-90s purple/grey) was too heavy, and the strings weren’t strong enough. So it mostly just stayed down, and we never had a view of the yard. The cat always went behind to look out – I’m kinda jealous.

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