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How many houses have you called home?

n one of those time-wasting questions that regularly crop up on Twitter, someone recently asked ‘How many places have you lived?’ I didn’t reply in case it was a scurrilous ploy to pinch passwords, but it set off one of those long trains of family history thought. I was surprised to find my home history count well below average. At least for one able to remember the tin baths and beetroot bottoms of yesteryear. I counted eight moves,

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