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Spending Time "In The (Laundry) Rooms"

Can I wash away the generational trauma of alcoholism? Can I at least get the stain to fade?

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Sally Shideler
Dec 20, 2024
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I was 19 the first time I went to a laundromat. I was in Germany, and on top of the strangeness of lugging my dirty laundry around, I had to do it on a public bus.

The night before, we'd had "Feierabend" at my host parents' house - an evening of celebration just for celebration’s sake. Several of my host family’s f…

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