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October 23, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall Leave a Comment

Our red brick Cape Cod is now white, and mature trees hide everything but the living room windows. Behind that red shrub is the laundry room, where my mother actually ironed the family sheets with a mangel, and I applied a hot steam iron to my brothers’ button-down-collar shirts.

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