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"First and foremost, our goal is to make sure the talent is taken care of," Lisa Klem Wilson, senior vice president and general manager at United Media, tells Comic Riffs.

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Bonnie Klem, a social worker on Montgomery County's Hoarding Task Force, which was formed last year, recalled a case in which she had to leave her purse in the car to have any chance of squeezing into a man's house.

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Inside, Klem found a disturbing scene: the man's bed covered almost to the ceiling with clothes, paint cans and cleaning products stacked next to papers and boxes covered with maggots.

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Well, at least he'll be gone in a day or two and we won't have to be embarrased by this bafoon and bumbling Klem KadiddleHopper character.

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Klem, who also supervises the county's Adult Protective Services unit, said hoarding makes up 12 percent of her department's caseload and each case can be time-consuming.

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Officials later discovered that the man, whom Klem described as a well-educated government worker, had multiple addresses.

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"It's a long process of trying to develop trust and respect," Klem said.

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"People who hoard see things differently than we do," Klem said.

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There is a story told about the great baseball umpire Bill Klem.

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Now, I would have broken his mark for total games also, but for the people who are reading this book, Klem never had vacation when he umpired.

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