Spending Time "In The (Laundry) Rooms"

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

The Al-Anon book of daily affirmations

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…