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Depression is exhausting. Thanks to reruns of the Canadian teen drama, I know I can make it through.

I’ve been living alone in my New York apartment for the last month. It’s been great! No offense to my two roommates, whom I love dearly. But when they both ditched me to spend some time at their much larger, nicer, cheaper (a.k.a. free) parents’ homes, I felt a brief twinge of loneliness.

Geez, I thought, after I returned upstairs to my empty place after helping my roommate pack several weeks’ worth of luggage into her father’s car. What am I going to do all by myself every single freaking day?

And then I walked in, and I flopped on the couch, and the more pleasant reality sunk in: Everything that happened in my apartment was now