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When the time came to decide whether or not to let our big back room, we had to fight hard to overcome our pride, for who is used to having a stranger, much less a paying one, in the house?
But when times are hard and the rent is badly needed, you have to put aside your pride, and lots more besides. Which is just what we did. The back bedroom was cleared out and furnished with odds and ends, though there were far too few of those for the stylish bed-sitting-room we had in mind.