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Trapped in the Average

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Living with women

03 Tuesday Mar 2015

Posted by Abbe Athena in Relationships, roommates

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complaints, relationships, roommates, women

There are tangled, matted wads of hair everywhere
Someone left their bras on the kitchen counter again
I’m pretty sure we had more red wine yesterday
Didn’t even bother putting the wine glasses in the sink?

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Disquieting competitors

12 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by Abbe Athena in friends, Relationships, roommates

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arguments, concerns, friends, relationships, roommates, validation

In an apartment of five roommates, you learn to cherish the calm, quiet moments of solitude captured in the most unexpected of hours. It’s seven in the evening, and our common room is filled with silence, and its only occupant is me. A ruckus of clomping down the stairs and of voices pitched higher than normal pull me out of that calm moment.

It’s three of my roommates interrupting the silence to make tea. Two of them are going at it, back and forth.

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