She paused to gaze affectionately on the ugliest couch in America. "I'm starting to refer to her as she," she said. "Before it was sexless. But now she's been out in the world and done stuff."
Sean Kennerly, a housemate who once idly plotted to get rid of the couch when Hempel was on vacation, said that he, too, had come to see it with new eyes.
"I love it now," he said. "It adds to the luster of the neighborhood. It's got this glow of greatness about it, the glow of victory."
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