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By Emily Gowdey-Backus

BARE NECESSITIES: Jessica Kowal drinks tea with her fiancé, Aaron, at their East Side apartment in Providence. The couple had to get rid of some possessions they didn’t have room for. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

BARE NECESSITIES: Jessica Kowal drinks tea with her fiancé, Aaron, at their East Side apartment in Providence. The couple had to get rid of some possessions they didn’t have room for. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY


For the past eight years Jessica Kowal has lived a peripatetic lifestyle, calling Cranston and four Providence apartments home since graduating Providence College in 2009. And with each move, the 30-year-old has winnowed her possessions to the bare necessities. After moving in with her fiancé, Aaron, in August, she said the couple needed to schedule

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