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204 1635 San Andres Street. A home briefly shared with Gale in Santa Barbara. Joel’s descriptions of it were ecstatically rendered dreams of domestic bliss to be. The house was spacious after their student life in an apartment, the neighborhood busy enough to be interesting without too much noise. The front porch looked out on rosebushes, lemon trees, a magnolia, pink lilies, ferns. Joel was rapt in cozy, domestic pleasure over an interior “too wonderful to describe”: living room, dining room, a well-equipped kitchen, two bedrooms, newly carpeted or hardwood floors, French windows, built-in china hutches, and glassed bookcases. He was full of plans to make furniture to fill the rooms. Here they set up the bed of metamorphosis. Their residence in the house was short-lived. ...

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