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I was puzzling today over the semantics of the term “laundry.”
When clothes are on your body, they are not laundry. But when you toss them into a pile, basket, or hamper, and they are waiting to be washed, they become laundry. They are laundry while they are being washed, dried, and folded.
But when you put them away, into a closet or drawer, they cease to be laundry.
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