I Toured the ‘Brady Bunch’ House and It Did Not Go As Planned
Nostalgia, it turns out, has a dark side
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8 min readSep 10, 2019
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Six years ago, my mom and I met for lunch in my hometown of Edison, New Jersey. I had some time before my train back to New York City, so I suggested we drive by our old house, a 1961 suburban ranch my parents bought for $45,000 in 1971 when my mom was pregnant with me. We parked across the…