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JACK (V.O.)
Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.

If I saw something clever like coffee table sin the shape of a yin and yang, I had to have it.

The Klipske personal office unit, the Hovertrekke home exer-bike. Or the Johannshamnh sofa with the Strinne green stripe pattern...

The office unit APPEARS. Then the exer-bike APPEARS.

Even the Rislampa wire lamps of environmentally-friendly unbleached paper.

I would flip through catalogs and wonder "what kind of dining set defines me as a person?"

I had it all. Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard working people of...wherever.

We used to read pornography. Now it was the Horchow Collection.