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Gardner's shrine to idiosyncrasy.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20040820
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Byline: Michael Kilian

BOSTON_To paraphrase the great Leo Tolstoy, all middle-class families are alike; every rich family is rich in its own way.

Consider the way slammer-bound Martha Stewart has been rich. Her myriad idiosyncrasies have included moving into my hometown of Bedford, N.Y., buying a 100-plus-acre estate, leveling everything in sight down to the bare ground with bulldozers, erecting an elaborate complex of faux French chateaux with steel beam construction and surrounding it all with a very uncolonial designer stone wall backed by a tastefully hued security ...

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