That Missing 25 Percent
@copyright 2020/Mike Consol Lucy shared a townhouse with Nell. The townhouse was owned by Nell’s parents and Lucy paid her fair share of the rent, even though she basically lived in just one room — her bedroom. Yes, there were some common areas such as the bathroom and the kitchen to which she also availed herself, but Lucy was known to Nell’s friends as the woman who lived in a bedroom and was playfully derided behind her back as Lucy of Boudoir. The bedroom was spacious and there was a large-screen TV in there, and her smartphone, and her books, and a lot of functional and decorative pillows to make herself comfortable. Dual windows with plantation shutters offered some natural light. You would have thought by that description that Lucy was an artless, soulless woman, but that was not the case at all. There was nothing lonely about her. The rare people who spent any time around Lucy (usually Nell’s friends, of which there were many) were inevitably surprised by how social she c