The House Where I Was Born
By Anna
@LadyDuck (457413)
Switzerland
June 16, 2016 11:12am CST
I was reading a discussion by @JamesHxstatic about the place where he once lived.
I have checked my photos, and I have found one, that I tool last year, of the house where I was born.
The house is in the center of Milan, in Italy, just a few steps from the famous Milan Duomo.
The house is old, it was already old when I was born, more than 60 years ago, but it will not be demolished, because is now part of the historic buildings of the center of the city.
The big red building on the left of the photo is "The University of Milan", one of the most important and largest in Europe.
Do you have a photo of the house where you were born?
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86 responses
@much2say (53909)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Jun 16
Wow - how long did you live in that house? And in such a historical area like that - amazing! When I was born, my parents rented a house somewhere in the city of Los Angeles - not in the best of areas. I think my parents still have a photo in an album of them holding me in front of the house (I seem to recall it being Spanish style) - but I remember nothing of it - and we moved to this Valley when I was 2. My parents still live in that house - and we are only about 10 minutes away from them!
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@Juliaacv (48256)
• Canada
17 Jun 16
@LadyDuck The house that I grew up in is still in the family because it is on the home place of the family farm, my younger brother and his wife and family live there. They had it all redone 20 years ago when they moved in and I've seen it, maybe the next generation to farm will improve on it even further as I didn't care for the renovations that my brother had done.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Jun 16
I was born in a hospital, but unfortunately it burned down long ago.
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
17 Jun 16
@AbbyGreenhill It's a shame that I have no photos of the inside. It was easy to take a photo of the exterior passing by, I have to check if my mother has some old photos of the interior.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
16 Jun 16
@LadyDuck We lived with my grandparents in Baltimore the first 10 years of my life and I have photos of that home but none on the computer....I never did get that scanner - maybe next winter's project. Love that yellow house - it looks very charming.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 Jun 16
I was born in a hospital, but the home I grew up in as a baby and such was torn down, sad really
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
18 Jun 16
@Jessicalynnt The old houses are charming, in the house of my grandmother the kitchen cabinets are all built with pegs instead of nails and screws.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 Jun 16
@LadyDuck sad mine is gone, the kitchen was built back in the 1800s and had pegs instead of nails. Then it was a one room cabin. The rest was added on later
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
16 Jun 16
That is very awesome the home will never be demolished! I currently am living in the home I was born in! 26 heads now!
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
16 Jun 16
Our home is built in the 70's. @LadyDuck
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
16 Jun 16
@infatuatedbby The home where we live now was built in the late 80's.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
16 Jun 16
how wonderful to've such a photo'n the memories to go 'long with. e'en more delightful that'cher birthplace'll remain, due to its significance to history.
there's no photo's'f the place i was born. 'twas burnt to the ground many years 'go.
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
18 Jun 16
@crazyhorseladycx I am so sorry, I can understand how sad he was.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
17 Jun 16
@LadyDuck yes ma'am, but my granddad did the burnin', unable to bear to look't the place 'fter my grannie passed.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
18 Jun 16
How lucky you are to have been born in Italy. I am beginning to love Italy more every day! I would have liked to visit Milan but a day trip would have done it no justice. I love hearing about Italy through you! I want to learn Italian and I am looking forward to learning it when I retire. I do not have any photo's of the house I was born in. It was my grandmothers house which had fantastic views of Dover Castle from the room I was born in.
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
18 Jun 16
It's a shame that you have no photos. I had none, but last year I decided to have a walk in the center of Milan and I took the photo of the house. My mother still lives in the center, but near Brera Academy, no more near the Duomo. If you want to learn Italian count on me if you need to practice.
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
18 Jun 16
@garymarsh6 No, I would surely not, because you would hit me for murdering English language first.
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
18 Jun 16
@LadyDuck OH Anna you would hit me for murdering the Italian language I am sure! 
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@DeborahDiane (40042)
• Laguna Woods, California
19 Jun 16
I love your family cabin in Montana. No wonder you are so comfortable in the outdoors!
@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
17 Jun 16
I don't have a photo of the house where I was born. Wish I did. But your photo gave me a start! I looked at it and immediately had a feeling of deja vu. I've been to Milan and to the Duomo and I just wonder if I'd been in the area of your home because this really does look very familiar to me! Isn't that strange?
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@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
18 Jun 16
@LadyDuck Somewhere around here are my photos from Italy. I know I took quite a few in Milan, since I loved it there so much. I spent time inside the Duomo with our pastor, who was giving me a much needed history lesson on the Cathedral and surroundings. When we came back outside, we were waiting for the rest of our group to show up and I just walked around taking pictures. I need to find them and get them out again.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
17 Jun 16
It seems to be a nice house/building where you were born. I do not have any picture (in digitised form) of the house where I was born. Moreover, once we shifted from that place, the house was demolished and there is a new house in its place.
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
20 Jun 16
@LadyDuck I think when you would have seen your house, you would have felt nostalgic about it.
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@LadyDuck (457413)
• Switzerland
20 Jun 16
@dpk262006 Not so much, I was too young when we moved, I have better memories of the apartment where we moved when I was two, we stayed until I was 8 years old, you remember much more at that age.
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@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
17 Jun 16
How fascinating that you found a nice photo to show us all this, I would have to jump a high wall and break all securing rules to get a photo of my childhood and house I was born to, but we were all born in a hospital, so we just grew up in the home.
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@JamesHxstatic (29234)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Jun 16
What a picturesque street that is Anna. I don't have a photo of the hospital where I was born or the house my parents lived in for a short time after that. Thank you for the mention!
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@DeborahDiane (40042)
• Laguna Woods, California
19 Jun 16
@JamesHxstatic - I don't have any photos of where I lived when I was little, either.
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@JESSY3236 (18886)
• United States
17 Jun 16
I have an old picture of the house I grew up in. But I wasn't born there though.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Jun 16
the house where i was born is already worn out, or it no longer stands where it was 56 years ago. the land was even sold by an uncle without the knowledge of my father (+)
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