Cleaning of 'wonderful handprints' can wait
Orson Scott Card
She and her husband and their seven children had gone to Idaho from North Carolina for a visit with her parents. Lots of other family members also came, and Kari's parents' home was full of children of all ages.
As you can imagine, the house was in a nearly continuous uproar. As she left, Kari imagined how relieved her mother must be that she could finally get the house back to rights.
A few weeks after the visit, though, they were talking on the phone and her mother said: "You know the full-length mirror at the end of the hall? I haven't been able to bring myself to clean it yet. I can't bear to lose all those wonderful handprints."
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