34 Julia “I have looked at seven thousand new apartments today, and I hate them all.” I pushed my computer back and slumped into the couch. “You’ll find the one,” Heidi assured me. “What about this one?” She pointed to the last one I’d looked at. It was on the first floor with a security plan and a fence with code access to get inside and, and, and… All the features I wanted. Yet none of them fit. “No, I don’t like it.” “Well, you don’t have to get a new place right away.” “I don’t want to impose,” I said at once. “You’re not imposing. We have plenty of house, and it’s no trouble at all.” I still felt bad. Even though it hadn’t been very long since everything went down. It didn’t help that I couldn’t seem to sleep. Not without nightmares jolting me out of bed in a cold sweat. I w

