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Paul Myers, left, and Geoff Carr chat for a moment on their front porch Wednesday. Carr, a North Idaho College instructor, bought the house in 2013 and is now renting a room to Myers, a 2023 NIC grad and current University of Idaho student, after being connected by a mutual contact when Myers needed emergency housing.

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Room for everyone
March 12, 2024 1:08 a.m.

Room for everyone

Unlikely duo now housemates after housing emergency

One is a university student walking away from a checkered past along a path of redemption. The other is a community college instructor with a penchant for Shakespeare, disc golf and tabletop gaming. “You can have two polar opposites live together and it be wonderful,” University of Idaho elementary education student Paul Myers said Wednesday.


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