My Afghan

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In graduate school I spent a year in Salamanca, Spain teaching English at the University of Salamanca, studying and working on my Masters thesis. When I returned to the States in 2000, I was in limbo. Most of my classmates had graduated that spring, but I had not been in the country to present my thesis and take the exam. I decided to live at my grandparents’ house, in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, until I could finish up and then look for a “real job.”

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Second Bedroom Redesign

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My house was so messy by Saturday last week, that I could not believe so little time had passed since the last cleaning. I was particularly dismayed by the state of the second bedroom. Two weeks ago, on Labor Day weekend, my friend Nga came to visit, and the room looked like this.

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