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CONTRIBUTORS
Q:
This issue includes a feature story on the growing appeal of renting.
What do you remember most vividly about the first place of your own?
BUFFY
GOODMAN
Photographer of “Booked
and Buzzed,” p. 58
I rented a basement suite
across from a little burger
place, and it always smelled
like frying oil. I moved to a
slightly better basement
suite three months later,
but it took months for the
smell to begin to fade from
my clothes.
LIANE FAULDER
Writer of “Shop. Sip. Stay Awhile,” p. 26
My first place was a basement suite in Jasper. My friend and
I moved in for the summer right after high school. With no
parents around, we were giddy with liberation — Super-
tramp’s Crime of the Century blasting from the record player.
One liquor-fuelled party featured a watermelon-eating
contest. But I couldn’t escape my mother’s influence, making
competitors lean over the bathtub to take part. Wouldn’t
want a mess, right?
RICHARD
KELLY KEMICK
Writer of “Of Bones and
Beasts,” p. 66
I was 17, renting a two bed-
room with my brother, and
just realizing how prohibi-
tively expensive everything
was. The exception: tea light
candles. For some loose
change, I got thousands. Sat-
urday night, I set them along
my bedroom windowsill and
desk, atop the dresser and
chair, and — when all surfaces
were full — across the carpet.
The light squinted my eyes,
the heat flared my nostrils,
the updraft fluttered my hair.
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