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Master bedroom after renovation
On a more practical note, we put a sewing kit in the kitchen drawer, flashlights in every
room, and a first aid kit in the bathroom. We placed a bright pink notebook on the coffee
table for guest comments. (My three seasons in the hotel industry had taught me that feed-
back from guests can lend a much-needed perspective to the inn-keeping process.)
One of my many projects that fall had been to create a modest library of DVDs and
books for our guests. Bearing in mind that the second house we'd rented in Vieques had
offered nothing but horror films—after all, there's nothing like an idyllic day at the beach
followed by a relaxing chainsaw massacre—we decided to go in the opposite direction with
our selection, which consisted mostly of frothy comedies and nature-focused documentar-
ies. In other words, the type of movies that would perpetuate the feel-good glow of island
life rather than dismember it limb by limb.
By December we had managed to pull together about thirty DVDs, and although we
wondered if they might “walk off” with our guests, I can report several years later that only
a handful of DVDs has ever disappeared, among them a
Best of Seinfeld
collection that I
was glad to be rid of. Michael, a die-hard Seinfeld fan, was less thrilled but he got over it.
Books were easier. First I took a long, hard look at my bookshelves in D.C. and sent
down everything I felt I could live without. Even better, I found that used books were read-
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