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This is one of a series of stories we are sharing to show what’s inside CubeSmart. You not only get a peek inside our customer’s storage unit, but also a peek inside what is important to them. Thank you to Pauline, a customer of our CubeSmart store in Lake Worth, FL, for sharing her story with us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauline Tal, a widowed woman approaching 72, dons what she calls a \u201cMona Lisa Smile.\u201d She explains that she\u2019s not able to fully smile because she had a possible virus that affected nerves on one side of her face. She now takes botox to avoid muscle spasms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the Mona Lisa, you can\u2019t really tell what goes on behind the smile, so you have to delve right in to learn that there is much more to Pauline\u2019s life than is readily apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauline\u2019s on her own, as her husband of almost 25 years passed away 2 \u00bd years ago and she has no children. She\u2019s been \u201cliving out of a suitcase the last couple of years.\u201d While she owns a home in North Florida, it was damaged during Hurricane Irma and she came to stay at her parent\u2019s house in Lake Worth after her husband\u2019s death. She was born in West Palm Beach, so it was sort of a homecoming for her. She also splits time by staying at a friend\u2019s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s about to move into a retirement community in Boca Raton, St. Andrews, which provides independent and assisted living facilities. She says that she plans to stay there for the rest of her life and that they have the ability to care for her when she can no longer care for herself. She reports being happy because she was able to pick how her apartment would look, what amenities it would have. Also, her friends live there and she may even have four friends there as another will be moving in, too! Her friend\u2019s child is helping her to take care of the paperwork since she has no family to assist her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauline became a customer of the CubeSmart located at 1900 6th Ave S, Lake Worth, FL 33461<\/a> almost two years ago, as she started storing items from the North Florida home she shared with her Canadian husband, who has now passed. She\u2019s looking forward to selling her home, which fortunately did not in incur major damage from the hurricane. While the bottom floor had three feet of water, most of her items were on the second floor and on platforms because her husband had the foresight to make their primary residence upstairs. They only had to replace a hot water heater and garage door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says the downsizing process has been \u201cdifficult\u201d because her home was two stories with an attic, and her husband \u201cnever passed a trash can he didn\u2019t love.\u201d She can only go through so much at a time while she is up there, but she has been working on donating items and clearing out items she will no longer need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, Pauline\u2019s story doesn\u2019t end there. Behind her smile lies a well-traveled, curious and groundbreaking woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty years ago, computers still took up rooms, and that\u2019s when she got into the computer industry. Even today, women experience stigma in the male-dominated tech space, and yet she was on the ground floor of it all. She recalls coding with punching cards and using the earliest forms of coding to program computers before personal computers even existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her young adulthood, she attended Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where she earned a BA and two Masters Degrees in Computers and Public Administration. After obtaining her degrees, she began working at FAU. She continued working there for 30 years, until her retirement 20 years ago. She coded, programmed, and provided reports of various statistics, student schedules, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauline declares that she does not have a\ncomputer in her house right now, because she\u2019s \u201chad enough computers.\u201d However,\nshe admits that she will occasionally use the computer at the library if she\nhas to. She also refuses to do her banking online, because her computer\nknowledge prevents her from trusting others on the internet. She pays for her\nunit in person because she \u201cadore[s] them here\u201d and uses a credit card because\nit gives her points. She\u2019s using the points to buy a TV for her new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says she is considering traveling some more, once she gets settled in. She reminisces on her two trips to Notre Dame and says she feels sad for the fire damage it recently experienced. She further explains that through the FAU Anthropology Department, she took three trips to Mexico. She\u2019s also traveled to Japan, England, Paris, and Italy, sometimes visiting or staying with friends, and\/or bringing the family along. She reports that Rome, Italy was beautiful. And she felt at home in one of the cities in Mexico. She couldn\u2019t quite spell the name, but she would consider visiting once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopping by her unit, she takes out a large metal can in an abnormal shape and explains that this was from WWII and used to hold bullet shells. She uses it for geocaching. She seemed to favor one of her arms and said that she recently damaged it while learning to curl. It seems that when pried, she could go on all day, unveiling even more intriguing details from her life and interests. Imagine being able to ask Mona Lisa why she smiled\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’d love to hear how self storage has positively impacted your life. Share your #HumansofSelfStorage story in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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