# Do I dare bang on the door of a house I used to live in?

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**Created:** [February 6, 2023, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-dare-bang-on-the-door-of-a-house-i-used-to-live-in/979401 "2023-02-06T22:20:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-dare-bang-on-the-door-of-a-house-i-used-to-live-in/979401/20 "2023-02-07T00:45:48Z")

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A few months ago I [posted a thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-reminisce-much-about-your-past/975632) about the house I grew up in. The house is still there, and (as mentioned above) my mother still lives there.

It’s an old, Cape Cod-style house on a couple wooded acres with a creek. I played in that yard all through the 1970s. Today, when I walk around the property, all those memories come flooding back: planting the garden, playing hide-and seek, catching lightning bugs, flying kites, building tree forts, wading in the creek. Such innocent times.

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