“Am I better off knowing that in the course of one evening, while packing for a school vacation-week trip to California, I went up and down the stairs — to the basement to speed-wash multiple loads because somehow all of our presentable clothing was dirty; to the kitchen to ready fruit and peanut butter sandwiches that would be shunned in favor of pricey in-flight offerings; to the attic to hunt for beach shoes that would turn out to be too small; back to the basement to rescue a Red Sox jersey that can’t be put in the dryer — 70 times?”
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Beth Teitell, The Boston Globe, 8 May 2012
