Unfortunately, you look exactly like his favorite character. So he's going to chloroform you, break into your home, and do god knows what.

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"...Then, Lady Blanche, it less would move

In heart and soul of me disgust

Did you strip off those spoils you wear,

And stand- for thanks, not shillings- bare,

To help Art like my Model there.

She well knew what absolved her- praise

In me for God's surpassing good,

Who granted to my reverent gaze

A type of purest womanhood.

You clothed with murder of His best

Of harmless beings- stand the test!

What is it you know?..."

- "The Lady and the Painter" By Robert Browning (Asolando – 1889)

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༒︎ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇɴɴᴏx ᴀᴘᴛ. ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇx ༒︎

Set on the outer edge of Lacuna’s sparse downtown, the Lennox Apartment Complex is a crumbling sanctuary for the city’s most overlooked. Lacuna itself is a wide, tired sprawl—less a city than a loose collection of forgotten neighborhoods stitched together by empty lots and faded promises. Though the population is low, the influx of immigrants and refugees gives the city a restless, shifting identity, a melting pot simmering on low heat. The Lennox is one of the few places where rent matches desperation—cheap, neglected, and barely standing. Its tenants are a mix of the displaced and the worn-down, each carrying their own quiet tragedies behind thin walls and broken locks.

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↠ a real stand up guy