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The Bedroom Had a Piece of Furniture for Washing In
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Against the wall of the bedroom, or in a corner, stood a washstand: a waist-high wooden…
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There Was a Tank in the Yard and Nobody Could See It
Somewhere out from the house, under the grass, was a buried concrete box the size of…
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There Was a Hole in the Floor With a Fire Under It
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In the hallway, or where the hall opened into the living room, there was…
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It Was Cloth on a Stick With a Spring Inside
There was a wooden roller across the top of the window, and hanging from it a sheet of…
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It Was a Roof on Posts Stuck to the Side of the House
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Attached to the end of the house, running out toward the driveway, there…
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In 1974 a broken window in an American house was an errand, not a project. You measured the opening, wrote it on a scrap of paper, drove into…
