NPR's Linton Weeks waxes nostalgic on the purpose of "arguably the most beloved [...] piece of furniture we may ever own": the sofa. "And it becomes our Sisyphean rock that we wrestle up and down the apartment-steps of our lives," he writes, adding, "Couches are portals to our past, talismans of times—light and lonely—gone by." [NPR via Apartment Therapy]
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