Jocelyn Bordador-Putnam

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“Scrubbed hands” by Jocelyn Bordador-Putnam

Submitted to Contest #31

Louise’s family purchased their first washer-dryer machine, a GE, in the early 1990s. They had just moved to the apartment row bought with her mother's office salary, and they were going through a rotating deck of housekeepers. The washing machine was a cheery lime green, and it had a hose for water to flow in and out of. It was important that they aligned the knobs exactly on the marks, or else they would end up either losing clean water before they began or retain dirty water past the end. Beddings, blankets, and most of their clothes wen...

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