In this series for T, Emily Spivack, the author of “Worn Stories,” interviews creative types about their most prized possessions.

Inside the “High Maintenance” co-creator Katja Blichfeld’s New York apartment, there are two chairs that once belonged to her enigmatic aunt. Here, she details how they serve as a reminder of her Tante Laura — and of the way she wants to live her life.

My dad’s aunt, Laura, who we called Tante Laura, was one of the two relatives that I had stateside — everyone else lived in Denmark.

Tante Laura followed her husband to the United States from Denmark in the 1920s. She worked as a nanny and did some housekeeping while her husband was a bartender. Things with him weren’t as picturesque as she hoped they would be. He had a drinking problem. He was a ladies’ man. But she was religious, a “good girl” from a rural Presbyterian family, and she never would have left. She probably thought it was her duty to stay with him.