How to Feel Like a Stranger in your Holiday Home

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Hyde Brothers Books, Wells Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana

I left the Midwest for the Pacific Northwest 17 years ago. But if I ever moved back to my Rust Belt hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, I’d probably live in a foursquare near downtown, where old houses are broad and sturdy.

During an unexpected trip to Fort Wayne for my grandmother’s funeral shortly befo…