There were immaculate rolling grounds with an eight-car garage, an adjacent two-bedroom casita and an outdoor dining pavilion with a fireplace and kitchen surrounding a black gummite pool.
From the time of Augustus, these dwellings of wealthy Ephesians, were decorated with beautiful frescoes and mosaics. The houses had luxurious bedrooms, bathrooms, triclinium, and kitchens.
You recall afternoons talking on the phone while crouching in the bedroom closet, and being convinced your child would be the first Ivy League college student to graduate wearing pullovers at the ceremony.
These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Arles, surprising the historians who have been working here since 2014, patches of paint still cling to the stone walls of the bedroom and reception hall.
But that mood is grooming younger and younger girls to tolerate psychological violence in dating situations and in their own intimate bedroom musical play.
Now research suggests that the mere presence of that TV in the bedroom is linked with weight gain—regardless of how long a youngster's eyes are glued to the small screen.