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Indoor Plumbing

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Goren and Lilly had been married

for just over a year, and Lilly was

growing annoyed with Goren. He

had promised that he would put

indoor plumbing into the house after

they were married, but he hadn’t.

Lilly was tired of bathing at the hand

pump in the summer and dragging

water into the house to bathe in the

winter. Goren didn’t seem to mind,

but then, he didn’t wash as much as

he should, anyway. Working with

cattle was dirty work, and he always