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Gemma Ng's avatar

so beautiful. so sorry ;(

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Tara Thompson Rasmus's avatar

This is gorgeous and heartbreaking, Erin <3

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Sofia's avatar

Heartbreaking. The brouhaha of mutiple households replaced by the silence of a single one.

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Renee Weitzner's avatar

I sure hope you find a great new apartment, Erin. I hope it offers the wonderful sights that you so wonderfully connect in your poems and essays....

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Diana's avatar

Erin I am crossing all my fingers and toes for you that you can find a wonderful new apartment in your area that is in the range of affordability. I was in Brooklyn last week and mentally scoping it out for you <3

A few years ago we left our gorgeous old one bedroom Victorian apartment in San Francisco (by choice!) and it *still* ripped my heart out of my chest so I can only imagine how this feels to leave not on your own terms. Do they at least have to buy you out!? Or can they not evict families with kids during the school year!?

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Erin Boyle's avatar

They’re letting us stay until the end of July so we don’t have to move during the school year—otherwise they switched us to month-to-month rent a year and half ago and they’re a small landlord so exempt from recent just-cause eviction laws. All around pretty devastating.

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Diana's avatar

uuuuuugh. I hope that unicorn of an apartment materializes for you!!

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Celeste's avatar

"Own it all" indeed. Wishing for us all that more people could see what is actually lost when they privatize and purchase everything.

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Celeste's avatar

So interesting! My children covered the jail spot with a drawing of a flower garden, and now I can tell them that there's a longer tradition of editing Monopoly for different purposes :)

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Christy's avatar

very few know or care about the secret (not so secret) that it takes care and a bit of elbow grease to keep magic going. Some days I despair all you've mentioned (and my own thoughts), but I have not yet given up! I read your words (and others) and know I'm not the only one who cares, but some days it feels like I am.

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DMcD's avatar

Don't give up!!!!!!

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