INDIAN HILL, Ohio — Daniel Buford doesn't remember much. He only lived there until he was 5. But he remembers one light bulb hanging from a wire in the ceiling. He tells me that's how most of the rooms were.

Now 71, Buford is sitting in what used to be a kitchen. He points to the remnants of a cistern where his family used to get water. It's one of the only things left that really resembles a home — one of the only things that shows how his family moved here with nothing, but found a way to survive.

“I used to actually live in these ruins," Buford said.

Buford holds up his right hand, laughing while he taps a walking stick against his palm.

"Somewhere on that hand, there’s some stitches that I earned right on this property," Buford said. "My blood is literally in this land."

He smiles

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