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Two different couple friends of mine came in from out of town and stayed on our couch and I think for the

next week we just left the bed open. It is a reminder of connectedness and it is this idea that

like oh our friends were here and it kind of just switches it up to, like,

there's another bed.

And yesterday, I just lay down and kind of,

you know, did my writing that I had to do in that guest bed.

I don't normally sleep in the living room and so even just lying down during the daytime and doing some work on that bed and then pausing for a minute and like looking at the ceiling

waking up seeing what the view was that they had pausing for a minute and looking at the ceiling,

waking up seeing what the view was that they had

when they were sleeping in my house.

And that is their memory of their stay in my apartment.

It's just a really nice memory of those friends who live in Boston and Michigan and

reminders that maybe they have a fold-out couch and maybe we can go to them.

It was more just seeing things through the eyes of a guest.

Avery Truffelman spends most of her days thinking about stuff, objects, architecture, clothing,

and the stories behind them.

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