…even if you don’t have no porno mags.  Beastie Boys! Ok, I am dating myself.  Plus who doesn’t know about internet porn? Not that I go to internet porn sites.

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SO living at home.  I am not sure if I’ve ever divorced living at home from the shame of unemployment and/or student debt you can’t pay off. This makes sense given the fact that without those two circumstances you presumably wouldn’t be living at home.  I tried to think of reasons why someone not in that situation would be living at home.  I came up with terminal disease, either your own or your parent’s…then I got depressed and couldn’t think of anything else.  Right before I decided to think of something else to write it dawned on me.  People also live at home on the other side of the economic stupidity wall: in order to save for something, like a house or to not go into debt or childcare. Ok, fair enough.  Let’s break it down.

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I caught the housing bug from an eighth year associate who thinks she is going to make partner. She thinks she is cute making comments about how she was being promoted at the expense of her ovaries. I thought such hackneyed cliches only existed in the nail polish smeared pages of a Lisa Scottoline novel. However I decided against it based oddly enough not on student debt but on what it might mean for my love life.

A dental hygienist friend of mine made a killing about two years ago buying stocks short. Being the responsible type she bought a house and immediately saw her love life shrivel and die until she started referring to her house as her parent’s house…parents who were mysteriously never there.

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