Mary Lou, left, and John Franklin were shown their new home on East Bearden Street in Greer last week. It had been a year since their old house was condemned.

Happy to be home

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About a year after her home on East Bearden Street in Greer was condemned, 77-year-old Mary Lou Franklin returned to the place she had lived since she was 8 years old.

What she found was a brand new house.

“I like it,” Franklin said with her hand firmly grasping the banister on her new front porch.

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