Daniella Marie: Dad's Cabinets

Jeff posted these photos to the Strathmore page on Facebook and it really went viral! People love the boom box also!

Patricia Martucci
Flashbacks!
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David Aliprandi
I'm surprised they are not rusted out
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Susan Vought Findley
My mom still has them in her kitchen
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Allison McAlpin
I loved being raised in a Strathmore home(cabinets and all )
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Rob Clerkin
Holy cow!
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Carolyn Cavallo Daniels
Don’t believe it. We had them and they look much better now than I remember.
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Heidi Daniels
We still have them too
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Barry L. Miltner
My dad had a divot in his forehead from those evil hinges.
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- Ken Klein
  Barry L. Miltner
  when I first saw this pic I remembered all the times I cracked my head against them, lol
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- Howard Gross
  That was my first thought, too!
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Barbara Fankhauser
Wow, I'm amazed at the shape they are in.
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Mons Erik Honningsvaag
Lol. When I bought mine in 93 it had the original kitchen and I used it
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Dawn Fread-Purpura
Same ones we had when we lived on Iona Place
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Steven Rosenzweig
Omg
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Julianne Papin
We had those cabinets when I was a kid.
I still live in Strathmore, but the interior is updated.
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Karen Renée Leight
Yep. The metal cabinets. Horrible
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Karen Renée Leight
Ivy Leight
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Susan O'Shea Smith
We had them but the end caps and frames were brown, like cabinets, but solid rather than wood grain like cabinet doors.
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Nancy Frederick Sussan
Weren't ours pink? As usual I remember nothing but am certain oven was pink and counters.
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Joseph Stahl
Oh man, were they awful! I couldn't wait for my parents to replace them.
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Jennifer Polity Baczara
I remember those. I am pretty sure ours were aqua!
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Beth Van Handel
Wow!
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Joyce Thompson Cox
The house I grew up in had the Aqua metal cabinets .
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Mary Torri Norbut
Ranches had yellow with brown “wood look” panels; capes had aqua with gray/white “wood look”; 4 bedroom colonials had pink with brown wood look; 3 bedroom colonial’s had white with blue panels and country clubbers red with brown panels ?
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- Jeff Savlov
  Mary Torri Norbut
  - wow. Good memory.
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Susan Westover
We had blue! Was so happy when my parents finally ripped them out.
Megan Almerino Rock Martin
I think ours were brown? But we were in s three bed colonial? I learned never to leave a cabinet door open thanks to those things!
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Glen Levine
No way!! They are like 80 years old
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- Richard Glickman
  Glen Levine
  60 yrs. But, who's counting? LOL
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- Glen Levine
  Richard Glickman
  i stand corrected
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Beth Van Handel
My mother would cover with contact paper!
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Jeannie El
There are still quite a few house with original everything.
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- Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
  love that! mid-century mod classics
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Donna Joy Falk
Ours were pink than we covered them with faux wood paper
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- Ingrid Pedersen
  Donna
  all the punk ones has the faux wood insert. Pink for the 4 bedroom colonial, white& blue for the 3 bdrm, yellow& faux Wood ranch, red/wood country clubber. Can't remember the Cape Cod though.
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Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
the mock-wood contact paper covering was classic
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- Donna Joy Falk
  Alyssa
  Yes!!!
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Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
ours were mustard yellow
Jeannie El
We had aqua. Hanging in our garage are yellow, aqua, and pink cabinets.
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Melissa Brewer Picchini
It’s coming back in style!
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Jeff Conte
You'd be surprised how many of them are still out there I see them occasionally doing estimates
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Jeannie El
Cape was turquoise with like a faux marble.
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Linet Schwartz
Things use to be built to last
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Glenn Parmelee
Yellow metal with a fake wood look. I can still remember the metal banging sound they would make. Kind of comforting to think back on that.
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Jamie Barasch VargasVila
The blue of the 3 bedroom colonial!
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Tom Tretola
We sold the house in 2012 and we still had the same cabinets Hit my head on side of those cabinets may times.
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- Kathie Rosar
  Tom Tretola
  - my dad and my brother always hit their heads too!!!
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- Tom Tretola
  A lot of cursing after hitting
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Jon Barasch
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Helen Millett
Oh boyyyy the shirts, the cups, the baby faces! Ugh that's just beautiful
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Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
Remember the radiant heat in those houses? We used to set up blanket forts on the warm spots in the winter
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Karen Reed
Lol
Karen Reed
Wow I totally remember the radiant heat after my mother would beat me out of bed for school and send me into the shower I would sleep there for another an hour and a half it was so hot so warm so comfortable
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Karen Reed
My parents are still in the house and what they would say is Aberdeen with the cabinets they had been painted many years ago and also some kind of tack paper....Lol...Still there
Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
Yes! I think the cabinets were metal? Ours were painted yellow on the sides with brown “fake wood” contact paper on the front!!!
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Ingrid Pedersen
My mom always tells the story, that the old Matawan folks used to call Strathmore the "Cardboard Village" and no Houses were going to last long. I think Levitt surprised them all.
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Karen Thies
Yes he did!!! Best homes!#!
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Linet Schwartz
My dad came from jersey city and they told him the houses are gonna sink cuz the whole place was a swamp
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- Peg E O'Neill Harsh
  Linet Schwartz
  old I built on Apple and peach orchard. Too much clay to sink
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Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
Built on a slab- no basement. I know that freaked out my parents families lol
Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
They were all from Brooklyn
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Karen Reed
Funny I married a man from Long Island and when we first pulled into his neighborhood .....As we drove thru this neighborhood...The homes looked very familiar....Capes....Colonials.... Levitt houses but smaller they were midget Cape cod's Colonial 3hrs…
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Karen Reed
All by Levitt...
Linda Hassler
My mom had the kitchen cabinets resurfaced by Sears in the 80s. We sold house this past summer, cabinets still in great condition on the inside. We had turquoise oven, dishwasher and refrigerator (but were replaced many years ago). They bought house in…
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Steve Elias
Didn’t many of the Levitt Strathmore houses come with Woodgrain on Pink
Kitchen Cabinets, and Pink Appliances?
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- Susan Shortell Mackinnon
  We has the pink on Idlewild Lane. I am pretty sure we had that red checked wallpaper too.
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Karen Gaughan
Still have one in yellow in my garage!
Peg E O'Neill Harsh
Now you’ll see these on Pinterest this looks like a Cape- wall phone was only placed in that spot.
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- Jeff Savlov
  Country Clubber
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- Karyn Whiting Allen
  Peg E O'Neill Harsh
  ...not in our cape - wall phone was on the wall just to the right when going from the kitchen eating area to the living room.
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Brian Schwartz
We had those cabinets too in our Fordham drive Ranch.
Glenn Parmelee
Yes! I can still remember the sound they make when they would close.
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- Jamie Barasch VargasVila
  Glenn Parmelee
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- Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
  Glenn Parmelee
  I cant remember it! Can someone post a video with audio of that sound?? I would forever be appreciative. Amazing that the 55+ year cabinets are still great! Talk about money’s worth.
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Paul Mirfield
And the coffee can kitchen lights
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Megan Almerino Rock Martin
I hit my head on them growing up too many times to forget them!
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Heidi Daniels
We still have them
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Carolyn Cavallo Daniels
Impressive. I feel like we replace our appliances every few years and remember things lasting forever when I was younger unlike this nonsense of every four years or so if we are lucky. Dare I say, the good old days!
Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
Yellow in the ranch. What color was in the other models.
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- Steve Mills
  Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
  blue in the Cape Cod.
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- Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
  Steve Mills
  I thin k it was more of a turquoise blue. And it was brown in the colonials??
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Laura Silver Jones
Blue in the 3-bedroom Colonial!
(And all the same models came with the same wall paper in the bathrooms.)
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Paul Bogdonoff
I remember these metal kitchen cabinets
Dona Remensnyder
Our cabinets were god ugly, turquoise with the grey panels! The fridge and stove were turquoise too, ughh.
That was the 60’s!!
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Richard Glickman
I have a friend who lives in Bowie, Md. There is a development there with the exact same 5 model houses by Levitt & Sons. EVERYTHING is the same: the metal cabinets (same colors), the mailboxes, window shutters, everything!
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- Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
  Richard Glickman
  I vaguely remember the mail boxes.
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- Richard Glickman
  Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
  Black, wrought iron looking, Lid lifted up, with 2 curled pieces underneath to hold a rolled up newspaper.
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Bill Willie William
Made of steel.
- Howard Gross
  Those bottom corners are deadly for bumping your head on.
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Bob Laken
Classic
Linda Carrus
Looks like a country clubber
Gale Quait Greenstein
We had the 4 bedroom colonial and had the pink.
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- Milissa Mauritzen Pucci
  Gale Quait Greenstein
  so it was pink appliances?
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Marilyn Phillips
Remember them
Robyn Silverman Kendziera
OMG!!!
Sue Ancona Obetz
Ours were pink on the edge and so was the counter
Michael Schneider
A little oil and care they last forever.
Margharita Twyman Komyati
We had the brown with a red counter. Country Cluber
Betty Kramer Domenick
We had the brown contact papered front and red counter tops in the Country Clubber before we changed them out. The cabinets are still in good use in the garage....don't make things like that anymore.
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- Steve Mills
  Betty Kramer Domenick
  those were the days. You didn't want to leave one open and catch a corner with your head. That would require a trip to the ER and several stitches. Lol.
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- Betty Kramer Domenick
  Steve Mills
  I presently live in the Clubber the replacement of the cabinets was high on the list. They are now in my garage
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Sean McNamara
We are renovating our kitchen and this was uncovered during demo
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- Barbara Manis Bucceri
  Sean McNamara
  
  Eileen Foyle
  , was that their original wallpaper?
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- Barbara Lehn Lepine
  Sean McNamara
  omg Sean, I forgot about that wallpaper!!! Warm fuzzies.
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William Henderson
I remember ours being way more dented up ... can you say kitchen floor hockey!! Good times
Vincent McElhone
I remember them!!
- Jeff Savlov
  Vincent McElhone
  - how is it going? B-section!!!
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- Vincent McElhone
  Jeff Savlov
  Hi Jeff!!! Still here which is huge to me! How about you? I heard from my old next door neighbor who I last daw when I moved away in 1970—. Bobby Savage.... the other day. Unreal. He found me on Google snd wrote me. Unreal. Did yo…
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Helene Gray Bryan
We had brown cabinets and pink counter tops. Old I section.
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- Elise Pearl Oliver
  Helene Gray Bryan
  same
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Eric Stenson
The infamous metal cabinets. The ones in our Cape Cod were a weird greenish color. Went with the avocado fridge.
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- Linda Humble Roemer
  Eric Stenson
  The Cape is came with aqua cabinets with a gray woodlook hardboard front. The appliances were aqua. If you had avocado, your parents may have opted out of the one supplied by Levitt if they already had one or they may have replaced it lat…
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  Linda Humble Roemer
  Must have been aqua and I’m just remembering the tone wrong. It was all original cabinets from ‘64 until they did a kitchen remodel in ‘87. The horrific original wallpaper was changed in about ‘75 for something even more awful.
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Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
Brown and mustard gold! C section ranch
Brian Schwartz
We had those too.
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Cathy Marcinanis Boland
We uncovered the similar wallpaper, but turquoise background, in our cape on Indigo.
Richard Glickman
Tawkin' about ugly, why hasn't anybody mentioned those hideous brown floor tiles throughout?!?!?!
Melanie Kennedy
We had blue cabinets in the 3 bedroom. When my parents sold the house the inspector said everything was up to or better than code. Even though there was a breakfast "bar" there was no kitchen Island, farm sink, or shiplap!!!
Glenn Parmelee
Yellow bathtub and yellow shower tiles in the bathroom to match the kitchen cabinets! I guess they get points for coordinating colors.
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Ann Cuffari O'Connor
Miss the heated floors...
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Leah Falk
OMG...that was in the 4 bedroom colonial!!
Cari Horn
Ours were pink.
Heidi Daniels
We still have them as well
Megan Almerino Rock Martin
Remember hitting my head on them as I grew!!

Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
Omg yes!
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Alyssa Isoldi Scheffer
They had the wood
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Yolanda Mandel-Glickman
I remember, ours were blue!
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Jamie Barasch VargasVila
We had the blue too.
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Glenn Parmelee
Lovin that boom box on the counter!
- Jeff Savlov
  Glenn Parmelee
  - retro all the way!
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- Yolanda Mandel-Glickman
  Hey, you don’t have to charge it!
Jeff Conte
And the wall paper too!
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Marilyn Phillips
Metal cabinets do I remember
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Jim Healy
Those exact cabinets were in our kitchen. I never forget hitting my head on the lower front corner. I was in so much pain I punched the cabinet and the shelf inside collapsed and all the dishes came crashing out the back doors since they opened on both…
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Jim Healy
I think anyone who lived in Strathmore hit their head at one time or another with those metal cabinets!!
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Jim Healy
Does she really.? Wow. Truth be told. My mother was at work at the time . I called her and told her that I hit my head on the cabinets and all the dishes fell out and broke. It wasn’t till years later after she sold the house that I told her the truth.
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Jacqueline Walsh
My mother still has hers. We grew up on Idolstone Lane.
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Bill Willie William
That could be a Cape Cod. Nice wood grain contact paper
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Jim Healy
Bill Willie William
the original Cape Cods back in the 1960s were an Aqua Blue in the kitchen. I had two aunts with a cape cod and a close friend and all of them were aqua blue.
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Laurie Quinn
Jim Healy
we lived in a Cape Cod on Winter Place and yes we had blue too!
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Pam Jarvis Wrobel
That a country clubber
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Anthony Fernicola
Ouch
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Christopher Fernicola
The Famous Ubiquitous Levitt Cabinets a 1960's classic!!
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Victoria Byrne Melton
The BOOM BOX, I wish I knew what cassette was playing
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Stacey Haddox
Look at those Cupboards!!!! Wow!!!!
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Annika Cioffi
No planned obsolescence there...!
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