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A couple looks at a mounted deer head over the fireplace in 2015, and the woman declares she does not like it. In 1984, a girl at the window asks about the history of the colonial house, and a girl doing a handstand suggests it has to do with Benjamin Franklin. A game of Twister unfolds first in 1971, and then panels layered over this one depict the same game in 1966 and 2015. Couples hold each other in 1930, 1952, and 1972. In 1973, a mother finds her children in a pillow fort they make with couch cushions, and in 1990, a family takes wedding photos. A man in 1990 says he was confused after a nap, while a man in 1995 discusses a recurring nightmare about his children drowning. A mother teaches a child to tie her shoes in 1977. In 1777, two men carry something bloody, wrapped in a sheet. There is a funeral in the room in 1916, with a man in a coffin in front of the fireplace. In 2007, another man talks about a dream in which he is in a big mansion. He walks in on his dad in bed with a naked woman.
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