The tiles on the bathroom floor were freezing cold. I wrapped myself in a faded blue bath towel. It was slightly damp and smelled like the cellar where my mother usually dried the laundry on a clothesline which stretched from the furnace to the door of the room where my brother did experiments with his chemistry set.

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Uncle Roger File 3: Terminals by Judy Malloy
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