City Girl Why must the city be so unkind? What did I ever do to it? Why must it punish me for being single? Why must I pay twice as much for an apartment twice as small as those of my friends living in the blissful state of cohabitation? Less money. More room. And sex. Just one of those. I'd take just one of those. But instead, I am confined to a studio with a rent I can't afford in bed alone in my sleeping alcove and watching cable TV-- a $21.95-a-month luxury that I have to pay for all by myself, as long as I am all by myself. Why must the city be so unkind?

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