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  • Essay / The Apartment - 537

    It's 7:15am and the first alarm goes off, as usual I fall back asleep in my soft silky cream sheets, covered with another layer of blankets that I bought a lot from Macy's . As I drift into a deep sleep, my final alarm goes off, this one jolting me out of bed. I then have to get out of my bed and slowly without trying to make any noise. On my fluffy white 8 X 11 rug that, unlike him, I love waking up to. As I make my way through the two matching oak cabinets, the wide five dresser with a long mirror, a stack of jewelry on top of the dresser, a Yankee cinnamon scented red candle and in the middle of the wide convenient there is the baby Jesus in his hand. bed that my grandmother passed down to me. On the cold dark chocolate parquet floor are the other oak furniture unlike mine; this dresser holds three beta fish tanks, a collection of navy blue Yankee hats, and a freshly brand new wallet filled with black Calvin Klein leather. I stop and look at myself in the two gigantic mirrors in the closet opposite the bed, then I open the sliding door and grab a black Victoria Secret sweater. Once I receive...