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...Out in the garden, yard-work has turned up shards of civil war-era pottery and pieces of coal....
...The French fancies and cream cakes, still baked daily on the premises, are a reliable source of calories and le café au lait “c’est bon”....
...Named after one of the early estates in the area, Petworth was one of the largest and earliest suburban subdivisions in Washington and its developers followed a plan like that set out by Pierre L’Enfant...
...Regularly passing at a rate of 30 lots an hour through London’s six principal sales yards, knocked down each time for a lower price, most lived out their lives in patient misery....
...And while Del Ray still celebrates its railroad past (a red caboose sits in front of the elementary school and the old Potomac Yard is now a sprawling shopping centre, with new apartment buildings planned...
...For him, the past cannot be entirely undone; he walked away from that period of his life HIV positive and with hepatitis C. “It took me down pretty fast.”...
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