My mortgage payment for a two-bedroom condo is now less than my former monthly commitment for a one-bedroom rental.

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My plan was to buy a one-bedroom condo, but my dad convinced me that I should at least have a yard and a garage.

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That was almost four years ago, and today, as I sit here (in my underwear) at my desk in my bedroom, I am officially a full-time freelance writer.

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Attempting to recreate a Janet Jackson video in my bedroom, aged 14, the plastic fold-away chair I was using as a prop snapped shut on my legs like a venus fly-trap.

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For two years of my childhood, my six-person family lived in a cramped one-bedroom apartment, one of the thousands dispersed across the mean streets of Manhattan.

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Everyone wanted to know what life was like in my home country, the UK. How much does a one-bedroom flat cost?

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My parents are both professors and they now live in a brand new four-bedroom house in an upper-middle-class suburb in Philadelphia.

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But on this one occasion, in mid-September, we were in the bedroom, and I was packing my things away, when Tony interrupted what he was saying he was talking about Idi Amin, of Uganda to tell me to chuck the blouse in the laundry basket along with one of his shirts.

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