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I’m getting ready to spring clean my office and when I think of spring cleaning, my mind recalls images of my Mom, me and my sisters with brooms, mops, buckets, scrub brushes, rags, furniture polish, bleach, starch, and lots of elbow grease. Every spring, just before Mother’s Day, as soon as Dad and my brother went to work, we would tackle the annual house cleaning. Dad and my brother worked the afternoon shift so when we girls got home from school, we were ready to work up a storm until bedtime. Even though I was quite young, I still had to work as hard as the older ones. This ritual usually went on from Monday through Friday and was always done by Dad’s days off on the weekend. The house was a wreck for a week every spring but it sure...
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