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If you walk into a house built in nineteen fifty five and knock on the wall, you hear something different. A solid thud. Dense and heavy, like knocking on stone. Then you walk into a house built last year, knock on the wall, and hear a hollow tap. Almost papery. Both are walls, both hold up a roof. But one of them was built with the idea that your grandchildren might live in it someday, and the other was built with the idea that you probably would not.