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I negotiated a price and they took the Sterling apartment off the market. They were impressed by my Google Drive folder, ready with all my documents. (
Always be prepared
, Mom once said, with her tax returns sticking out of her purse, after another open house we’d gone to “for fun.”) The next week, I signed the papers in an oversized conference room, six feet apart from everyone else.
My welcome was warm. On move-in day, a neighbor introduced herself. She secured her floral face mask and shuffled through my new kitchen, pointing out the renovations. I asked how long she’d been living in the building. Proudly, she replied, “Over thirty years.” There was also the man with his partner down the hall “I’m a Vassar alum, too!” who received my light fixtures when I missed the delivery. There was the co-owner of the coffee shop across the street; she makes my iced oat milk maple latté as soon as I wave through the window. And there was the born-again Christian next