Life in a recently built apartment is like a simulation that’s constantly glitching. Your towel bar looks like a towel bar, but it can’t hold the weight of a wet towel without falling out of the wall. Your floors look like wood, but then they start rippling or peeling back at the corners like the cheap petroleum byproduct that they are. Your doors look like they close securely, but you know that if you accidentally walked into one while checking your phone there’s a good chance you’d rip right through it. There doesn’t seem to be water inside the walls, but you can smell the mold, feel the damp behind the scratchy, echoing drywall that resembles plaster but is, in fact, made of cardboard, gypsum, and the cheapest glue in the world.
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