how i met your father

Enter Persephone

by beth May 3, 2010

Sum­mer 1998 We’d set­tled in to the new apart­ment. The liv­ing room was painted a bright red and the ceil­ings felt like they went all the way up to the sky.  Our kitchen didn’t have the same spa­cious feel.  Instead, we both couldn’t fit into the kitchen at the same time.  Even with one of us […]

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Apartment Hunting

by beth April 16, 2010

Sum­mer 1998 A few months had gone by from the night we sat on the bed try­ing to avoid the real­ity that being with some­one means open­ing your­self up. It means being vul­ner­a­ble. It means being hon­est. We did all those things and in the light of the next day we did what many do. We […]

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No Take Backs

by beth April 6, 2010

Win­ter 1998 We had been liv­ing together now for more than 6 months.  It was get­ting closer to our one year anniver­sary of offi­cially dat­ing.  And it wasn’t a smooth easy ride.  Instead try­ing to fig­ure out how to live together, go to school full-time and work was stress­ful.  We fought more than either of wanted.  […]

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Roommate Wanted

by beth March 22, 2010

Fall 1997 Miss Coley and I were look­ing at apart­ments with two other room­mates that were sup­posed to be on board with us.  It was decided to go with an apart­ment run by the Uni­ver­sity, but it was expen­sive.   At the time I was work­ing in retail mak­ing less than $8.00 hour as a man­ager working […]

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