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Anna sat on the sofa. It was nearly midnight. She was tired and ready for bed, but she wanted to enjoy the luxury of this moment when everything was still, the day's work was over, and she did not want to go to bed right away, for the simple reason that she knew she could do so whenever she wanted to. She looked around the room and found it hard to realise that she really was in her own flat at last. It seemed as if she had been living there for ages, but in fact she had only been there fortnight. She tried to remember it as she had first seen it: empty, except for a few chairs, the walls bare, the balcony without flowers, lifeless. And yet she had known from the very first moment that this was the flat for her. It was so peaceful that she had immediately felt at home. ( 156 words)