Ihaven't spent many years of my life living alone, but I enjoyed the few years that I did. Two of those years were spent in the early 1990s in a one-bedroom apartment above a design studio on Thoma Street near downtown Reno, Nevada. It was a dream of a little apartment, with a big deck looking to the west toward the Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance.

I loved that little apartment — and enjoyed making it my own.

For the first year I lived there, I did not have a television. However, an old boyfriend gave me a 6-inch color television that I put in a corner and rarely used. (I used to remember it being a black-and-white television, but there's a detail I'll share in a moment that proves otherwise).

I've never been much of a housekeeper, but one day I decided to go all-in on cleaning

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