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My first solo studio, the "dollhouse," and the start of discovering my own version of home.

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Christene Barberich
Feb 15, 2022
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When I turned 30, I moved into a roughly 300-square-foot apartment. It was not my first choice or any choice, really, but having just spent the prior four years digging myself out of some horrific debt, I was looking for a place of my own that I could afford on a freelance writer/editor’s sometimes (very) unpredictable salary. 

I think my childhood bedro…

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