Chapter Five Roommates

“Individuality is the salt of common life. You may have to live in a crowd but you do not have to live like it.”

—Henry Van Dyke

Parish, Michael Bruce Boraas, Anne Truman and three other students at the State University of New York at Stony Brook together rented a six-bedroom house in the Village of Belle Terre. Dr. Edwin and Judith Dickman owned the home that the group rented and approved of the students' living arrangements.

Michael Truman signed a lease with the Dickmans beginning December 31, 1971 and ending the following May at $500 per month. At the end of the lease term, the students could elect to keep renting the property on a month-to-month basis. Bruce Boraas later co-signed the lease. None of the six students were rel...

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