I watched the entire process from the sidewalk and then from inside my house.

Ilene,

Not very pleasant at all. Fire is not nice. Neither is nice it to have a mess quite so close. Please keep us posted.

I was reading this morning on the subway about Aldous Huxley's reaction to when his house burnt down with his accumulated life's work inside. The fire fighters had to restrain him from running in to save his manuscripts... and then later he made a front by telling the press that it relieved him to have a blank slate with which to start over.

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