uncrying

She shopped, and cleaned the apartment, and cooked, and took the laundry to the laundromat little dreaming that after the baby was born this would become one of her great pleasures—the chance to get out of the house alone, or at least accompanied only by a great white silent uncrying laundry bag.

The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

She shopped, and cleaned the apartment, and cooked, and took the laundry to the laundromat little dreaming that after the baby was born this would become one of her great pleasures—the chance to get out of the house alone, or at least accompanied only by a great white silent uncrying laundry bag.

The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

She shopped, and cleaned the apartment, and cooked, and took the laundry to the laundromat little dreaming that after the baby was born this would become one of her great pleasures—the chance to get out of the house alone, or at least accompanied only by a great white silent uncrying laundry bag.

The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

Whether it was coffee or the unacknowledged dispenser of clothing to the uncrying needy it was service, and though my arm muscles ached I could understand that it is the idle boy in Paris which does not rest at night.

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