My friend who had lived here before me was sort of a goth girl. she had moved in eleven years earlier [when the rent was only $245] to take care of the man upstairs who had cancer. She stayed after he passed on. The spooky cobwebs and dusty windows only added to the gothic feeling indoors. I didn't mind it, but I would notice weird looks on the faces of my friends when they would come to visit. "you live here?" The house was in its autumn years, or so I thought.