If These Walls Could Talk

Good bones

Illustration of 209 카지노게임사이트 Avenue 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ a two storey, red brick building, with covered porch.

Illustration by Wendy Treverton

For the rest of his life, Sean Harvey (Com카지노 게임 컬렉션™15) will be able to brag to friends and colleagues, to his children and grandchildren, that he was once judged by a panel of his peers to be better than a beer-pong table.  

In the early fall of 2011, the beer-pong table had an inside track on taking over the seventh bedroom at 209 카지노게임사이트 Avenue. The six other first-year students who had signed a lease on the house for the following year reluctantly agreed to consider Mr. Harvey as an alternative. They peppered him with questions over dinner at Leonard Dining Hall.   

카지노 게임 컬렉션œHe impressed us enough at dinner that we decided, 카지노 게임 컬렉션˜You카지노 게임 컬렉션™re worth more than a beer-pong table,카지노 게임 컬렉션™카지노 게임 컬렉션 says William Cartar (Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션™15, MSc카지노 게임 컬렉션™17).  

It was a good call. When the seven roommates moved into 209 카지노게임사이트 in the fall of 2012, Mr. Harvey brought along two new couches to anchor the home카지노 게임 컬렉션™s large living room. Over the three years of their tenancy, the couches became the perfect place to 카지노 게임 컬렉션œchill on, sleep on, play video games on, study on,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Andrew Parkes (Com카지노 게임 컬렉션™15).   

Mr. Harvey was a good provider as well as a lifelong friend, the roommates now admit. 

The house 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ so close to campus, with big bedrooms on all three floors and living and dining rooms big enough to entertain 카지노 게임 컬렉션“ was a bequest from Mr. Parkes카지노 게임 컬렉션™ sister, Kirsten Parkes (Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션™12), who had lived there with five friends the previous three years. She was determined that her brother take over the lease, in part so he could continue the home카지노 게임 컬렉션™s noblest tradition: the 카지노 게임 컬렉션œCave Rave.카지노 게임 컬렉션 

Actually, the Cave Rave카지노 게임 컬렉션™s first year was the last of Ms. Parkes카지노 게임 컬렉션™ residency, inspired by a flood that made it necessary to throw out the flotsam and jetsam of years of previous student tenants. The purge opened up an intriguing new space: the basement. Wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t it be unique, Ms. Parkes and her roommates thought, to have a subterranean celebration to mark the end of their time at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s? But it wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션™t really be a tradition unless the new tenants agreed to end their final year the same way. 

Ms. Parkes카지노 게임 컬렉션™ brother and his roommates were all in. During the late winter of 2015, they undertook another cleanup, clearing the basement카지노 게임 컬렉션™s second room, which was full to the rafters with broken furniture, boxes of ancient textbooks, and vintage hockey equipment. They mounted their own crypt-like commencement exercises and then instructed the incoming tenants to replicate it in their final year. They like to think the Cave Rave lives on. 

The roommates, who also included Tommy Tsapralis (Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션™15), Christopher Lalonde (Com카지노 게임 컬렉션™15), Michael Verde (Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션™15), and Chris Gain, were all gone on the last night that Mr. Cartar slept at 209 카지노게임사이트. 

카지노 게임 컬렉션œEvery room was empty,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he recalls. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI remember going to bed and feeling this weird out-of-body experience of kind of watching your own death. This house that had always meant so much to us 카지노 게임 컬렉션¦ was no longer, and yet I had one final night to be in this place that used to be home. I remember that particular night being very hard.카지노 게임 컬렉션 

With sublets and summer students, a lot of people passed through 209 카지노게임사이트 over those three years. Mr. Verde remembers everyone who got a chance to live there 카지노 게임 컬렉션œsaying it was their favourite living experience 카지노 게임 컬렉션¦ at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션™s.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Maybe that was just because of the cleaner the boys hired once a month to swamp out the bathrooms. But Mr. Verde thinks of it as something more, something in the very bones of the house.  

카지노 게임 컬렉션œI miss every minute of it,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says. 


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