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In despair during the postwar housing shortage, one young couple put this ad in the paper, “Wanted: A haunted house by a couple of young people who are ghosts of their former selves.”

The point

A humorous postwar housing-shortage ad reveals how a weary young couple feels about their circumstances.

Audience
Adults
Tone
Humorous · Wry
To tell aloud
under a minute · 33 words

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