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pulled up to his belly button. He had quit his job to move in with us, so
Papa hired him to work for Real Social Dynamics in exchange for rent.
Then there was Xaneus. He lived in a tent in the backyard.
Xaneus was a short, stocky, fresh-faced college soccer player from Col-
orado who had begged to live in the house. He said he'd sleep anywhere and
do anything. So Papa pitched a tent for him, asked him to pay for utilities
and house cleaning, and brought him into the Real Social Dynamics fold as
an intern.
For the first two weeks, all we did was marvel at the house. We'd done it;
we had beaten the system. We had the most desirable location in West Hol-
lywood. And we had lucked out with our roommates. Herbal had already
scheduled a Pickup Artist Summit—the first annual—to take place in our
house in a month.
At our initial house meeting, we established a structure for Project
Hollywood, putting Papa in charge of social activities and Herbal in
charge of finances. Then we laid down the rules: No unapproved house-
guests for more than a month; anyone conducting a seminar in the living
room has to give the house fund a ten percent kickback; and no sarging
women another PUA has brought into the house. All these rules would
soon be broken.
I initially enjoyed living with roommates, leaving my introverted
writer's world and being part of a whole that was greater than the sum of its
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