I just realized over the weekend that the Chronicles of Narnia may have unconsciously influenced my nigh-endless search for just the right antique wardrobe last year. I think I rejected every modern armoire in the state before finding the perfect piece in a mall antique shop.

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I just realized over the weekend that the Chronicles of Narnia may have unconsciously influenced my nigh-endless search for just the right antique wardrobe last year. I think I rejected every modern armoire in the state before finding the perfect piece in a mall antique shop.

and the gay man part has nothing to do with it :)

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I think I rejected every modern armoire in the state before finding the perfect piece in a mall antique shop.

Does it look anything like this? [link]

Oh, feh. That link doesn't stay put. On that page, click the botton near the top right that says "most viewed". Then, go to page two, and there are a few shots of Lucy entering the wardrobe--or, this might work: [link]

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and the gay man part has nothing to do with it :)

Oh, that was behind me buying a wardrobe rather than plastic clothing containers or drawers in the first place, but I think lots of gay men would have gone for the black cherry armoires from Hank's Furniture. Or the swanky Chinese wedding cabinet that I was about to buy before getting driven off the road by a semi last Valentine's Day.

Does it look anything like this?

No, although that looks like an oak finish version of the $10,000 1840s French wardrobe that I lusted after during the search. Here's mine: [link]

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I was always too poor for a wardrobe as a kid, so I would actually sit in the closet and pretend I could get to Narnia that way. There's all kinds of subtext potential there, I suppose.

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No, although that looks like an oak finish version of the $10,000 1840s French wardrobe that I lusted after during the search. Here's mine: [link]

Matt, that's gorgeous. That wood makes me want to touch it.

I was always too poor for a wardrobe as a kid, so I would actually sit in the closet and pretend I could get to Narnia that way. There's all kinds of subtext potential there, I suppose.

Me too. Actually, my bedroom closet had another closet within it. Does that make sense? In other words, if you opened my closet, and on the left there was a door to a storage closet that you could only access from my closet. My closets have closets! Anyhow, I used to pretend Narnia was in there. I didn't go in there though, because for years, the latch on that door could only be opened from the outside of it.

I "rescued" my mother from it, when I was a toddler. She accidentally locked herself in it, and was yelling for my dad, but he didn't hear her. She heard me playing, and called me, and told me to go get daddy, and was very afraid I wouldn't, but I did.

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Actually, my bedroom closet had another closet within it.

In my family's house, the closets in the two larger bedrooms have two doors with a little bit of wall in between them. When we first moved in (I was 13 and my sister was 8) my sister and I would each stand behind a door and then take turns knocking on each other's doors and pretending we were on You Can't Do That On Television. Also we would pretend we were in 17th and 18th century farces. Only in my family would two children be so fond of farce. (I know that's not really true, but really - how many kids do you know that are especially fond of "A Flea in Her Ear"?)

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Tim, did we lose power in our hood? Don't answer if we have no power.

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I can't figure out exactly where the power outage was/is or how widespread it was/is since, aside from 30 seconds at Old Navy, there's been power everywhere I've gone today. In fact, I wouldn't have even known about the power outage if my mother hadn't called me after they broke in to television programming on the East Coast to announce that we had lost power. Also, they were urging citizens to use common sense when traveling.

As if.

ETA: Never mind. Natter has given me the blackout info.

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Let's start a rumor on the interbunnies.

Allyson and Tim are living in sin. And possibly darkness.

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