The home includes an 870-square-foot theater with a bar and dumbwaiter, 30-foot ceilings in the living room and satellite security.

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Or maybe, she thought as she stood in the kitchen, opening and closing the dumbwaiter door with one hand, the necessary act of sacrificing one phone for another could be read as a veiled enactment of the sort of ambivalence required for alternating between lovers in the first place.

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