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Tahoe raises his eyebrows at her

"I didn’t say I liked it rins at her

While they o and open theGina sold me on the place when she told me the air smells of chocolate because there’s a chocolate factory nearby

I take a good whiff, and the air not only shboring buildings and cannot believe I’s It s nearby are beautiful, the streets clean We e

In the closet, Regina has set her stuff on one side, but even with only half the space available, I can’t fill this closet onmy clothes and actually--unlike my Texas friends--I really like closets that aren’t crammed Someone once told s to coh space to welco is, I don’t know But sos Chinese takeout for us to have a late lunch together, and when they leave to go get ready for some posh dinner they must attend, I look around the space and cannot believe this is my first place on my own

It feels a little odd not to hear my parents downstairs But I hear the city sounds outside, of life and bustling activity, and it pleases ht from hoht on top of it:

QUEEN OF EFFING EVERYTHING

My grandave it to hty-two, she’s still the coolest gran I know My nana is my own Betty White with perfect white hair and more expletives in her dictionary than a sailor will ever know

The only purchase Gina never got around towas a set of stools for the kitchen island Since I want to learn to live on , I’ll just pull the desk chair with a little cushion over when I need it

I raphs of Tahoe, Mohtstand Then I huff and puff until I get my suitcases up on the top shelf of the closet so they don’t take up any floor space

That night, I sleep for the first time in my life in a whole apartment just for me

I’anizing the closet in my new apartift froirl of twenty-two left Texas, and torown independent woot a lot to prove, especially to uys in the big leagues