Chapter 80

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Not so much because I'd lost sense of deadlines or refused to reset my clock, but because convincing Joshua to attend college had taken an eternity. I decided to intervene after watching my parents barter with him for about an hour, becoming increasingly frustrated as they did so. Finally, I told that if he went to school, we'd go to the beach and build a gigantic structure with five strongholds when we got home. There are hidden passageways for several of the squirrel spies, as well as a wide trench to keep enemies at bay. I also promised to drive him to school despite possessing an eight-hour class. My mother got one thing right when she bought the behemoth we recently saw: the apartment was exactly three kilometer to my public high school and seven meters from my son's. But that's the extent of its redeeming qualities. With its dazzling metal column entry, sapphire mirrored glass facade, and gigantic lion sculptures with winged flanking the europe's greatest entrance door, this property violated practically every last one of my architectural sensibilities, to avoid seeming like an aesthetic specialist. I couldn't help but wonder whether we'd relocated from a fashionable, smart manufacturing district to... that's the one?
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