/authors/dmg/Recent content in DMG on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usThu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2017/02/23/the-loft/Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2017/02/23/the-loft/<p>I’ll keep the usual, obligatory preamble as brief as possible – the juicy bits of this retelling are coming but without the establishing shots, much of the deliciousness is lost.</p> <p>I’ve been roommates with my friend Alyssa for just over three years now. We are both reasonably successful, driven, motivated and coincidentally both on the dominant end of the spectrum. The combination of circumstance, close friendship, and accidental discovery of a massively undervalued loft space in the exciting elbow of the city led to us entering into a co-habitational partnership.</p>