Word: washere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glove to scour the kitchen sink, or in the wedges of pears sliced onto a plate for a baby's lunch." It hits Nora's neighbor Donna Durgin one day when she is "wounded by the kindness" of the Sears repairman, who doesn't charge her for fixing the washer because he can tell she really cares about things. "You wouldn't believe some of the laundry rooms I've seen," he says. Her husband has not said anything as kind for years; after she carefully lays out dinner and the next day's clothes for the kids, Donna walks...
...response: "Having a problem with trust? Try dealing with people in a college laundry room who find it funny to tell an inexperienced clothes-washer that it's all right to use bleach on bright colors. Now I look like a throwback to the 1960s because everything I own is tie-dyed...