WRONG HOUSE

WRONG HOUSE

My Prince-Themed Bedroom Was a Revolution

The “Kiss” singer taught me I could be whoever I wanted to be. Starting with my own room.

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Wrong House
Sep 08, 2025
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Illustration by Rob Vargas

By Jesse Dorris

In 1986, I lived with my parents in a blue ranch-style home in the woods of North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. They’d moved us there after a year of renting the servants quarters of a lovely stone house in nearby Padanarum, a tony little village by the Cape Cod water. We’d moved there in a terrible break from a fair…

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