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the clean gene | 2002-04-18 - 9:33 p.m. A�os before the hombres de ciencia discovered Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; d�cadas before people started going around saying "I'm a classic Type A," mi madre was picking microsc�picos crumbs of out of our orange shag carpet, shaking her head and muttering imprecaciones about the mastuerzo God gave her for a husband. Pap� was not a messy hombre by most people's estandards, but that didn't matter. As far as Mam� was concerned, he was little better than a sloppy, careless neanderthal, whose sole actividad consisted of strewing her home with greasy, half-eaten chicken carcasses and body hair. From ma�ana to noche, you could find her bent over a bucket in the ba�o, or en cuclillas en la cocina, sighing like an old mattress every time she sank down to wring out the sponge. On the rare d�a she felt sick or tired, she would confine herself to lavando los platos, but you could tell from the wild look in her eyes that the inactividad was driving her loca. One a�o, Pap� decided to spoil Mam� for her cumplea�os by hiring a maid to clean the casa that day. Jes�s, was that ever a gasto de dinero. As soon as Pap� told Mam� of his plan, she leaped out of bed as if she had all of a sudden discovered it was hecha of nails. "What's wrong, Mar�a?" Pap� asked. "Where are you going?" Mam� was throwing her clothes on like a passenger on a sinking ship. "Dios, Victor," she panted. "We can't let her see the house like this! I've got to at least run a vacuum through it!" One look at mi apartamento, hijos, and you'll wonder if anybody ever ran a vacuum through it. The dust on my muebles is so thick you can insulate a house with it. There are numerous unlabeled scientific experiments growing in the nevera. It's Halloween in my bathroom all year 'round; the shower is coated with a film of orange and black mold. If OCD is genetic, then I guess it skips a generaci�n, because I sure as hell don't have it.
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pride and prejudice - 2004-09-07
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