The story might have been very different had Nayef, as had been assumed, lived long enough to become king.
Mr. Klinenberg was struck, for instance, by the number of young people who assumed living alone would be like college, where friends just drop by.
His office was on the ground floor of a residential building, and I assume he lived there as well, in one of the cordoned-off rooms.
I assumed Arthur, who lived in an identical unit, had paid about the same.
I think, until our meeting, I'd assumed she lived rough, since she'd always been a neighbourhood feature, while existing as a person apart; a self-appointed excluded person, like the old Polish airman, who had lived for decades on the council dump, with his feet bound up in rags.
For some reason I just assumed he lived in LA, but he would later tell me that he loved living in the nature of Idaho with his family and found peace and happiness there.
I assumed that since she lived in Jersey and dated a former Nets player that she would join me in my anti-Nets crusade, so I decided to sit her down at NJ Skateshop to discuss who her picks are and who is the biggest threat for the 2013 2014 season.
I guess I assumed that the people living here had way too much money on their hands, but in reality, it goes further.
For many years, I assumed that all old people lived in book-houses, and that it was entirely normal to spend one's time arguing the merits of various obscure socialist doctrines over matzo ball soup and roast duck.
