Prologue: A taupe plastic tub sits in the stale darkness of unit No. 2271 in a self-storage facility in Hyattsville.
In the grand scheme of Things, the tub is nothing.
It takes up a speck of the United States? 2.3 billion square feet of rentable self-storage space, which, if parceled out equally among the populace, would give each American about 7.38 square feet. This means we could all stand comfortably ? in uniform rows like tubby terra-cotta warriors ? within the self-storage lockers and hangars of America. Around us would be junk: ours and others?, swapped and inherited and bought for pocket change, bundled in bags and baskets and tubs and jugs, important enough to keep locked up and then sometimes trivial enough to surrender to receivership after we don?t pay our rental fees.
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