text:  Because he was the first to truly appreciate the apartment, this lemon of theirs, this red zone home, gratitude flared within her. He trundled over the computer cord toward the laundry heap. Only yesterday had she finally removed from that corner the mess of cardboard boxes and bubble mailers, pesky reminders of all the big and little things they had felt compelled to buy, the great waste pile of their move, the cockroach's legs going tss, tss,