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"When Heloise McKee moved to the District after college, she packed her car with the essentials: five bags of clothes, an alarm clock and a folder filled with tear sheets from shelter magazines."
That did not mean what I thought it would mean.
For real. I think I hurt my brain when my mental image of a college student sleeping in her car and scouting out homeless shelters collided with that photograph. Now I know how those children Choire poisoned feel.
For the record, my favorite homeless shelter magazine is the "washington heights quarterly review"
*"fort washington men's center quarterly review"
I thought it was going to be about the Heloise that tells you how to get red wine stains out of silk lampshades :(
Interesting choice. We went with "empty suitcases of Natty Light and High Life" in our case. And a fake Christmas tree with an empty bottle of Jack in place of the angel on top. Never would have gone in this direction, but I respect it nonetheless.
When I moved to DC from college, I had five boxes of books an alarm clock and one bag of clothes. COINCIDENCE????
I have a roughly equal amount of books and clothes. What does this say about me as a person?
I don't have room for a couch in my apartment because there are too many bookcases ):
when i moved here i had a backpack and a hangover. now i also dont have a couch due to books. but all of this is irrelevant because this story is an elaborate piece of fiction. people like this don't actually exist, right?
You people should share a Kindle.
I just brought an old Chinese man to schlep my epically bungled trousseau.
All that "research" and shopping and still the sweetly vapid southern girls end up living in a white box styled like a Crate and Barrel catalog shoot. Bless them.
You know what's so damned obnoxious about articles like this is the inevitable: "Her aunt, Catharine Roberts, lives less than three miles away from McKee's new neighborhood. She is one of three co-owners of Catharine Roberts, Oliver Dunn and Moss & Co., a shop in Georgetown that sells a mix of old and new American, French and Swedish furniture and accessories."
Thanks for nothing.