My Le Creuset French press symbolizes everything I love about adulthood.
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When I was 24, one morning I was in a shop that specializes in whimsically curated cookbooks and cookware, looking at a Le Creuset baking dish that cost half my rent and imagining the ways in which a person must have their life pulled together to own such a thing. A friend of mine was working in the store and she asked me how I was doing. I shared with her my current landlord woes. I would have to leave my attic apartment the following month and I had no idea where I would live next.