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"I can measure my life by the showers in which I have scrubbed myself. The shower of childhood: 1970′s sea green tiles with mint green grouting. The shower of high school: communal — dirty yellow walls, white hot shower jets — where the goal wasn’t to get clean but to get wet enough so that the gym teacher would hand you a life saving, genitalia-covering towel that smelled of burnt dryer lint. The shower of college: institutional, sterile, at the end of a carpeted hallway. The shower of graduate school: a patchouli-scented stall which could be transformed into a tantric love cube with the right partner. The shower of middle age: rife with accoutrements such as organic loofas, European shower gels, and an array shampoos and conditioners — the scent of each one a Proustian memory trigger. As for the shower of old age, I can only speculate that it’ll be emblematic of old age: in a place where I’ve always been happy and alone, suddenly someone will have to help me while pretending he or she is alone."
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:21:11 +0000

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