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The little hinged metal box screwed to the wall beside my grandparents' stove was always described to me as a match holder, which made it sound like a convenience.…
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It was a wire tent that stood on a hot stove lid, and that is very nearly all there was to it.
Four sloping panels on a flat…
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Hay had to go up, which is the hardest direction there is.
A loaded wagon stands at ground level and the crop has to end up at the…
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There was a rotary egg beater in the drawer of every kitchen I was ever in as a child, and I never once thought about it. You turned…
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The first desks I sat at had a round hole in the top right corner with nothing in it. Nobody explained the hole. It was simply a feature…
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There is a small glass dish on a shelf at my grandmother's with four hat pins in it, and the first time I picked one up I put…