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Submitted to Contest #323
The water is so hot it burns my skin and paints my palms pink. Grabbing another dish, I press the disintegrating sponge harder into the chipped plate. Perhaps it is because I cannot scrub away the mistakes in myself, so there I stood again, hyper-fixated on my third round of dirty dishes. There is a reason my wife calls me the dish fairy; it is because, without a dishwasher, I have to do them constantly to keep them from drowning us. As the chronically ill and unemployed part of our partnership, it is one way I can contribute to the running...
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