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boxroom

/ ˈbɒksˌruːm; -ˌrʊm /

noun

  1. a small room or large cupboard in which boxes, cases, etc, may be stored
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Four years ago, my husband Dan and I were a bottle of wine down in our draughty, small, city house, our son finally asleep in the boxroom upstairs.

When we both got boyfriends it was a bit awkward: “OK, someone has to go in the boxroom, otherwise we’re all sharing a bed!”

I spent a year living monastically in a friend’s boxroom in Bristol, discovering that recovery is a process rather than a destination, a project of constant modifications and setbacks with modestly miraculous breakthroughs that convince you that life is worth living.

I will nod quietly when asked about an IT problem I will take Erskine’s advice and learn to laugh at myself, and the fact that it costs $$$ to rent an outer city boxroom.

Had he seen the hundreds of Christmas boxes arrive a few days before the great feast; had he learned that one of the smaller study-halls had to be converted into a temporary boxroom for the holidays; had he seen the contents of an average Christmas-box from home, he would have been possessed by no doubt as to the possibility of the boys, presuming they were willing, to supply the inmates of the home for the aged poor with as bounteous a dinner as heart could desire.

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