At some point that summer Aric and I came to the realization that getting an apartment together would be just like driving around in my car with the addition of a refigerator and a bathroom. So we decided to start looking.
We would scan the classifieds in the paper as we drank mutliple pots of free coffee at Azar’s. We never really found anything that we would seriously consider. Maybe we were just day dreaming.
The dream would become reality when we found that one of the women we worked with had a duplex that she and her husband rented out. The details came together quickly and before you know it we were signing a lease on the back half of a two bedroom duplex.
My biggest concern was how I was going to break this to my mother. I had started going away to school at 12, came home at 18 and a year and half later, I was going to move out again. Luckiliy for me, she solved the problem for me.
By chance, on the day that we signed, my mother approached me and said that I was 20 now and had a job and she felt that I should pay her some rent every month. I told that I’d move out then. If I was going to pay rent, I wanted all the benefits and freedom that went along with that. I think she was shocked but there was no denying the logic. Timing is everything.
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