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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger: My Experience Living with Cockroaches
The first time I ever saw a cockroach was when I moved into my first apartment. I was a bright-eyed hopeful, ecstatic that I had found a place so close to U of T’s campus with plenty of space, two balconies and huge windows that let in the light. Up until that point I had only seen roaches in movies, and while the building manager did technically warn us there had been roach problems in the past, they strongly emphasized it was no longer a concern. And I, being a naïve new renter, believed them. On move-in day my roommate and I were greeted with a pretty messy apartment, cat…