laundry chute of dreams – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:43:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 March 8 https://orangette.net/2017/03/march-7/ https://orangette.net/2017/03/march-7/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2017 06:00:03 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=9826 There was a chair in the front window of my teenage bedroom, but I almost never sat there. It faced into the room, because all there was to see outside was the house across the street, with its dirty-blond buzz-cut of a yard and a security system sign staked by the door. The chair was next to my bookshelf, and as such, it mostly collected books I was too lazy to shelve. The only time I sat in it, that I remember anyway, was the day before I left for college. It was late afternoon, maybe early evening. My dad was standing in the doorway, one shoulder against the frame. He’d been keeping me company while I kneeled on the…

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