Laurel named the two-year-old cat Angus, and quickly learned that he was a critter who had to spend lots of time outside -- preferably in the large cornfield that abutted her Terre Haute apartment.
Though Ms. Kurtz is specializing in the West Side area on or abutting Central Park, her first sale was a co-op on East End Avenue, in the building where she was raised.
"We hung out with a bunch of friends, and it dwindled down to the two of us," said Mr. Dobias, who then walked her home around the corner to a building abutting his, and gave her a peck on the cheek.
She is disarmingly frank abut her insecurities: "I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped.
Their friendship also marks a change in the way viewers see Saga, from a difficult, cold beginning to a gradual warming, until her honesty and lack of pretension become two of the most admirable things abut her.
Richard has taken off with Emma, who is much younger than Phoebe's mother, while Jane is so hysterical abut her own vanishing youth, she primps in front of the looking glass that Phoebe talks of wanting to go through, Alice-like.
The arc of her career, uneasily abutting art-rock and alternative music, jibes with his own off-kilter profile.
The directions to her secluded home, sitting atop a hill abutting a 640-acre wildlife preserve, were not the kind spit out by Google maps or a GPS device.
Abutting an epically proportioned wood pile (stacked in a spiral, thanks to her husband) is a Windex-blue above-ground pool that will be the container for her next installation.
