I am a full-time freelance writer based in Richmond, Va. A recent graduate of Virginia Tech, I have experience working in newspaper and have contributed to several national, regional and local publications.

Society & Lifestyle > North American Culture Defining the American dream

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There is a beautiful house on the corner of Springfield and Cherry in my town that looks like the American dream in architectural form.

Three-story, brick, perfectly coiffed. If Martha Stewart and Norman Rockwell slept together and gave birth to houses this place would be their love child.

After rows of apartments, neighborhoods and otherwise suburban sprawl it appears. Surrounded with the perfect amount of grass on each of its sides, petunias in the window boxes and a basketball hoop in the driveway.

Sometimes I ride my bike past the house and I wonder about the people insid...

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