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How Often Do You Wash Your Bra?
A woman’s bra is a very personal thing.
The only gossip I’m interested in is things from the Weekly World News — ‘Woman’s bra bursts, 11 injured’. That kind of thing.
~Johnny Depp
I don’t normally think about or talk about bras, but a few events happened over the past few months that put bras on my radar.
The first event was a three week house sitting gig I undertook for some friends. They have one cat, one kitten and one dog and a big house on an acreage.
One of the things that happens when you house sit is that you become very familiar with the owners simply because you are living in their space and using their things. You are entrusted with taking care of their home.
I knew they had a water tank leak the previous year, so I asked for a tour of, and instructions on the appliances in their furnace room. I got a brief lesson on the high tech washing machine, drier and gas stove. Every evening before I went to bed, I did a quick tour of the house … peeking into rooms to make sure all was as it should be.
Two weeks in … the precocious kitten I had come to love, disappeared.
I started looking in all her usual hidey-holes getting more and more frantic with each passing…
