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Given some of the people that I had to share with on a block and a house, having a roommate in the first year would have been living hell. I have heard many horror stories and have a few of my own.

I lived in a house with a manic depressive, a schizophrenic and someone who defecated on the floor - if there had not been the buffer zone of their bedroom doors between us it could have got more messy that it already did.

I am sure there are plenty of people with opposite stories where they ended up sharing with the best people ever and spent their whole days running through meadows as the sunlight bounced off their shiny white teeth, but I suspect that this is rare.

Manic depressive was a chronic masturbator. Schizophrenic sneezed in your food and hid things. And the guy that defecated on the floor? Well, he defecated on the floor.

There were others; there were landlords; and there was the blessed relief when I retreated to a room that was mine and no one else's.

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