No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.
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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, 'What about all that furniture? You're never even going to sit on it!' I don't want to rattle round in a big house.
I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
I'm not really someone who's always out on the scene going places. I'm a homebody. That's just who I am.
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