The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
A Room of One’s Own–Well, Not Quite
“Sergio Santos’ home is a closet,” reports WPTV of West Palm Beach, Fla. No, he’s not hiding his identity–he literally lives in a closet:
Five and a half feet wide, by 14 feet long, or 77 square feet, to be exact.
“I was really struggling to pay for the place I used to live. I decided to look for something cheap.” said Sergio.
The rent is $150 a month and to furnish his pad, a whopping $64.
“I have just become very well-fitted here,” he said.
He has a miniature refrigerator and microwave (a nanowave?), and he shares a bathroom with the tenants who rent the rest of the apartment. “Sergio is happy, living with just what he needs, making one man’s closet, another man’s castle.”
OK, but are we wrong to suspect that if this story had appeared a year ago, Santos would have been portrayed as a hapless victim of Republican heartlessness? (Click here for photos of Sergio’s room, and a link to his website.)
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