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Contractor | 37 Eleu Street in the middle-class suburb of Waipahu. It was part of the Royal Kunia development, which contained three hundred similar-looking homes. According to Albi Matco, the manager of the community association for the development, many of the residents worked at military facilities in the area. The corner house Snowden rented was comfortable enough, with three bedrooms, a walk-in closet, a living room with a high ceiling, and a single-car garage, but in no way lavish. It did not even have a backyard. He moved in on April 2, 2012, which entailed a brief separation from his girlfriend, Mills, who had committed herself to attending a girlfriend’s wedding the following month. After he left for his new assignment, she wrote on Instagram, “Sex toy party and then saying goodbye to my man— well not goodbye so much as see you in two months.” | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 37 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019525