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The right (and wrong) way to gossip with your neighbors

When Gaby Lieberman moved in with her boyfriend Elvin Pavlenko, she didn’t think she’d be so closely scrutinized by their neighbors. But from the start, she was fighting an uphill battle: Pavlenko spent his entire life on the same block in Teaneck, New Jersey; when he moved out of his childhood home, he landed…across the street, in an apartment complex where he and Lieberman lived. In other words, the neighbors had watched him grow up. “These people knew him, knew his whole story,” Lieberman tells Vox. “They had seen him in diapers all the way to a grown 30-year-old man.” And the comm...