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She had had her momentary flowering , a year , perhaps , of wild-rose beauty and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse , and then her life had been laundering , scrubbing , darning , cooking , sweeping , polishing , mending , scrubbing , laundering , first for children , then for grandchildren , over thirty unbroken years . gold
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