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College Rent Receipt<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t remember how much total rent I paid for a single bedroom in a large house shared with the homeowners and at least three other college and conservatory students. It was said this was the only rental in town with a rule requiring extra rent be paid if you have sleepover visitors more than a few times a month. You had to pay for your sex.<\/p>\n

I don’t recall anyone having overnight visitors while I was there but it could well have happened without me knowing about it. I know I had none that year, and the house rule about having to pay extra rent did serve as kind of a barrier. In college I only dated women during freshman year, though I was neurotically obsessed with one woman throughout college, and at times behaved inexcusably badly on account of it.<\/p>\n

I had a discussion last week with someone who, as a younger woman, screwed around all over the place, earning her quite the “reputation.” She lost virginity at 17. I had girlfriends in high school and a few dalliances freshman year in college but my virginity ended up waiting until I was 23, on Riverside Drive, to a woman I learned not so long ago is as beautiful today as she was back in 1991.<\/p>\n

I never felt deprived for being such a seemingly late bloomer. However important it must have seemed at the time I find today it just doesn’t matter. I’m more satisfied with my generally excellent academic record than I would be for having boned my way through college.<\/p>\n

Evidently I had to pay for the first semester rent up front. Why else would a final payment for the first semester of the 1988-89 academic year have been made in the month of May?<\/p>\n

My memories of the house are surprisingly scant for having spent a year living in it. A 4-story structure with a Steinway Grand in the living room it was considered one of the fancier houses in town, as I recall. I have no idea what its street address was, and combing through some maps of Oberlin turn up no definite clues.<\/del> The “3rd S. West” written on the top left corner of this receipt would have been the location in the house of the room I rented, 3rd floor southwest, not the street address. Through the magic of the internet, and after deciphering the signature of the homeowner on this receipt, I now know this house was on a cul-de-sac named Reamer Place.<\/p>\n

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