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"My mother-in-law has started a campaign to replace my living room curtains. I had no idea how much she didn&amp;#039;t like these curtains until she casually mentioned to me the other day that perhaps I&amp;#039;d like new ones. I do? No, I&amp;#039;m pretty sure I hadn&amp;#039;t even thought of my living room curtains, let alone contemplated replacing them, especially since we hardly use my living room in the first place.  But now that we&amp;#039;re working on a &amp;quot;house renovation project,&amp;quot; a.k.a. &amp;quot;gutting half the place and starting over,&amp;quot; I guess she thinks the curtains are fair game. So I went into the living room to take a good look at the curtains. Gee, the sheers are stained, I noticed for the first time in 13 years of living in my house. And they&amp;#039;re kinda dated, I thought, wondering if the TV show &amp;quot;Dallas&amp;quot; was an inspiration for the colors and style. And there are SIX of them! How come I never noticed there were SIX of them before? And that&amp;#039;s when it hit me: I hate my living room curtains.  Until she mentioned my curtains, I never noticed how much I hate them. Now I can&amp;#039;t pass by the living room without imagining new ones there, like a before-and-after shot on an HGTV show.  A voice-over runs through my head: &amp;quot;We replaced the tired, out-of-style curtains with new, stylish ones that better suit the renovated house.&amp;quot; Then the show&amp;#039;s host interviews my mother-in-law. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always hated those curtains, but, you know, you can&amp;#039;t tell them what to do,&amp;quot; she&amp;#039;ll say before they take one more shot, drinking in the luxurious and oh-so-overdue new curtains. Of course, this means we won&amp;#039;t be able to afford a new couch for the new family room for quite some time. But my mother-in-law can sit in the living room and take in the curtains when she visits. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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