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"Mamas, lock up your sons&amp;amp;#8212;Shallon&amp;amp;#8217;s got her own bachelorette pad! I had told you girls before that I was looking around for a new apartment and considering having a guy roommate but, I decided that I really wanted to live on my own. I&amp;#x27;m kind of a neat freak and love to spend all winter watching hockey on full blast, so it&amp;#x27;s better for everyone involved if I fly solo! Can a messy apartment make you fat?! So, I got knee-deep in Craigslist and began looking for a studio apartment that wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t leave me absolutely broke. And lemme tell ya, it has not been an easy task. There&amp;amp;#8217;s nothing quite like trekking around New York in 90-degree heat listening to a broker tell you about this apartment, and that appliance--only to realize that all the places you really love are really really out of your price range. But, two days ago the apartment gods smiled on me and I found THE MOST perfect little studio ever! It has a bedroom alcove, an adorable tiled bathroom and kitchen, elevator, AC, and&amp;amp;#8212;the best part&amp;amp;#8212;it looks out onto a green, flower-filled courtyard! Living in New York, greenery can be hard to come by. But my new place has a wonderful willow tree right out side my window. I can just picture it all snowy and lovely during Christmastime! Eeeee! But more than anything, I&amp;amp;#8217;m excited to have a place to call my own&amp;amp;#8212;just me. I kind of feel sorry for girls who go straight from roommates to shacking up with a guy and never get to live alone. Hear how Single-ish blogger Ryan Dodge found his first apartment! And, it&amp;amp;#8217;ll be so nice to have a guy over to burn cook dinner for without worrying about disrupting the roommates, or having him endure an interrogation over dessert! When do you bring a dude into your house? Do you live by yourself? How is it? Are you ever lonely? How has your social life changed? Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Shallon on Twitter Photo: Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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