Perhaps the final email of my life to Erin:

Bills due for the period from January 15th – to February 15th

Southwestern Bell Local Service 33.33
SBC Internet 34.95
U.E. 47.47
Gas 166.57
Water 50.96

Subtotal : 333.28/2=166.64
Plus your phone bill from the last At&T statement which was roughly 30 dollars
Plus the current phone bill of which 71.64 belongs to you. That’s 101.64 in phone
For a utility total of 268.28 plus march rent of $425 – which does give me room to find another roommate and makes up for not paying rent in either the end of November or all of December (sort of) $693.28.

(The water bill comes every three months & covers the time you were here.)

Please forward ASAP as I do have shut off notices on the utilities.

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This is the cost of life in St. Louis - plus food, Gas, Cell phone, college tuition payments, and credit card debt and you are living to work, or is that working to live?