In the rising steam, watching the swirl of dust collect around her drain, funneling downward like sand in an hourglass, Lily stopped to think: There was a man in her house, a stranger!
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The Home Improvement Research Institute just revised downward its previous 5% growth estimate for the overall home improvement market from earlier this year to 3.4%.
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