Around this time, perhaps on Monday I posed for a class at the Ontario College of Art that had a model at each side of the studio. The other model was Helga Schlatter who was very outgoing and socially fearless in a manner that rendered her both extremely charming and (I would find out later) somewhat Machiavellian. I mentioned that I was looking for a new apartment and she told me that she and her partner had one available in the house they rented. She invited me to come and look at it after work. As we waited for the Dundas streetcar she told me she was four months pregnant. I commented that there was a glow about her and she strangely responded, “I am in an open relationship”. Their house was on Sheridan Avenue just south of Dundas and I met Helga’s partner Peter Bird, who seemed nice. The apartment was two big rooms with a bathroom in the front of the main floor and we would be sharing the kitchen. The price was lower than the place I’d been living and so I said I’d take it.
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