Sometimes, you sell your friends on going to dinner, while other times, you sell your roommate on cleaning up the dirty dishes.

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Your college roommate will be marking that milestone birthday in a fewmonths.

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So you play the cultural ambassador, doing your part to make your white roommate more racially sensitive in case he runs for office someday.

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In the bathroom a little while later, we are brushing our teeth when Lamby saunters in, calm, like your college roommate the day after an acid trip, acting like everything is normal.

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For instance, is your apartment big enough for you to take on a roommate?

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That college roommate, the kid you went to high school with, your colleague from two jobs ago, that client, or an older person who you know, deep down, has changed her mind about homosexuality.

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