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Submitted to Contest #31
No one hangs their laundry outside anymore. A few of the backyards on our block still have old clotheslines swaying like worn-out trees, but no one actually uses them.No one but Miss Ada.Old as the hills and as wrinkled as tree bark, she hangs her wet laundry on her clothesline every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the yard next to ours. As reliable as clockwork, she talks to herself while she pulls old-fashioned clothes pegs from the pocket of her flowered apron and uses them to pin dainty cotton house dresses and striped pajamas on the li...
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