The Opposite Flat

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In 2021, I spent six months living in my cousin’s flat on Woodstock Grove in West London.

My cousin let me crash at his while he was away for work, so I had the whole place for myself but didn’t throw any parties, nor did I make a mess around. In fact, my first couple of weeks there rolled out when the lockdown restrictions were still on and I was self-isolating, which certainly brought an intimate relationship between me and the…