Who says reality TV is all bad?

"Extreme Makeover" turns tears into smiles

Since they moved into the big, new house that "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" built for them two months ago, the Dore family of Kingston has been living with self-imposed don'ts — as in "don't sit there" and "don't put that there" — afraid that a stray jacket or dirty dish would spoil the look of a place so perfect it didn't seem like home.

Then Roseanne Dore's friends came over the other day and found laundry piled on the couch. They knew the Dores were settling in.

Just what's inside the six-bedroom, seven-bath home has been kept secret since the home was revealed to the family Nov. 17. They had to sign a contract promising not to discuss its contents and to limit visitors until after the show featuring the family airs at 8 p.m. Sunday on KOMO-TV's Channel 4.

For thousands in the extended Kingston community who watched the project take shape — or helped make it happen — it's been a long-awaited event.

Roseanne Dore, a widow and mother of daughters Aariel,13; Sarah, 17; and Jessica, 22, had been living on the property on Kiwi Lane in a storage shed with no plumbing since the family's home burned down eight months earlier.

This is one of the best stories I have heard in the last two years. I amost always get chocked up just heaing about it. I am just that sappy but I also think that the producers of the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" show have their hearts in the right place.

I have, for the most part, been very much a hater of all things Reality TV has to offer but here we have an oppertunity to bring someone up and out of a bad situation. I find this type of show to be a reason to watch TV, At least network TV; that i haven't had for a long time now. Good job! If you can turn me into a reality TV viewer it could work for anybody.

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