Word: mattress
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Three decades after my parents left it, I stand in my H-44 common room. There’s a huge mattress on the floor that my roommates Grainne and Angela found, somewhere, and a gray three-part couch we inherited from Grainne’s sister. A bag of candy in the corner from my birthday pinata sits next to tubes of nontoxic tempera paint and Angela’s swathes of brightly-colored cloth. I could tell you the story of each of these items. When I walk through Harvard Yard, past Massachusetts Hall, I remember standing outside...
...Uday arrived, the maid heard screaming. Later she was called to clean up. The body of the woman was carried out in a military blanket, she said. There were acid burns on her left shoulder and the left side of her face. The maid found bloodstains on Uday's mattress and clumps of black hair and peeled flesh in the bedroom. A guard told her, "Don't say anything about what you see, or you and your family will be finished...
...exclusion of everything else. Her small home in Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps of fur on her bed, an old foam mattress on the living-room floor. There are pieces of stale bread everywhere. But the squalor doesn't seem to bother Nouman. She has lived in much worse places - a succession of prison cells, torture chambers and mental-hospital wards. Her living room may be fetid, but it is home...
Pemberton’s face brightened as a crew came in with a new mattress to replace her now soggy...
...before was awful,” she said. “I was, like, having back problems from the old mattress...