{"id":3,"date":"2005-01-10T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/01\/10\/tales-from-a-dark-apartment\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T00:22:04","slug":"tales-from-a-dark-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/01\/10\/tales-from-a-dark-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from a Dark Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The electricity in my apartment has been flickering on and off all weekend, presumably due to the storm that’s wrecking havoc in LA.\u00a0 The old\u00a0Jewish woman who lives down the hall from me dropped by\u00a0yesterday, during a period in which the electricity was working, to ask for help in resetting the clocks in her apartment.\u00a0 I think she wanted the company more than the help, since the clocks were bound to flicker off again anyways.\u00a0 In the fifteen minutes I was there, she managed to tell me about the family, and the baby,\u00a0she had lost in the holocaust and the husband she had lost to old age.\u00a0 Her entire apartment was a shrine to her former life, with faded pictures of her and her husband scattered throughout.\u00a0 I tried to stay and talk to her as long as I could, but soon the walls started to feel like they were closing in on me and I just had to escape.\u00a0 It was a\u00a0sad and sobering reminder of what it must be like to grow old in America.\u00a0 I hope I work up the nerve to visit her again.\u00a0 I’d like to, but I’m not sure I’m that brave.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aside from no hot water and all the food in the fridge going bad, my roommate and I have been forced to entertain ourselves by telling stories and “using our imaginations” this weekend.\u00a0 Apparently, neither of us have much of one, so we ended up discussing our current topic of obsession – the half ton man<\/a>.\u00a0 I don’t know why I find him so riveting.\u00a0 I think it’s because he makes me reconsider the limits of the human body.\u00a0 Or that, even tipping the scales at 1,000+ pounds, he’s\u00a0been married for over nine years.\u00a0 The idea of a Mrs. Half Ton Man is mystifying to me.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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