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If you really want to know the truth, I found the sofa first and the apartment second. I’d lived in Williamsburg for over five years1 — you can only live very close to a Just Salad before that starts to say something about you as a person. I’d made and lost friendships in that apartment, brought a puppy home to it, had a cold brew so intense I pulled the oven out from the wall to scrub the floor myself.2 The apartment wasn’t perfect — there were several unbelievable interactions in the building-wide group chat, including a legal action over plants and a snitch planted by our landlord — but it was the first place I really felt at home. My parents had basically always lived apart; I’d never had just one address before. All of my books and magazines had never been under the same roof.
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