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There’s no basement. None of the houses in the neighbourhood have one. They’ve been banned since my grandparents were around. People say that terrible things used to happen before, in the basements. That’s why no more basements were allowed to be built. In the houses dating back to the times before the ban, the basements were bricked up. Although they’re large houses, they’re cheap nowadays, easy to buy. People don’t like living in those houses. It’s understandable. Who’d want to live above a sealed room, devoid of all light?