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New York Times, March 21 2013

I pay $189 a month ($2,268 a year) for my Single Girl’s Starter Kit. My Single Girl’s Starter Kit is a storage facility I keep in Brooklyn. I recently moved in with my boyfriend of seven years. Giving up my low-rent apartment in Park Slope is as serious a commitment as I’ve ever made to any human being.

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Brian Rhea

Smithsonian, October 2011

I just flunked my bank’s identity test. You know, the one that interrogates you about your life. I failed to identify my favorite cousin, former address and the name of my maternal grandfather. I’m sure that the person monitoring my efforts thought I was either an identity thief or a complete imbecile…

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Illustration by Eric Palma

Salon, Feb 15 2011

I was left home alone with the food. It was the first thing I noticed about being out of work — the dominating availability of food. There was no daily structure upon which to hang a meal. No “lunch hour” to confine the act of eating sandwiches to a fixed point in time. No “coffee break” to separate the time of eating chocolate from the time of not eating chocolate. None of that…

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