Gominokohai is on an economy drive, and finds his thoughts slipping back to older times...

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I am, of course, spending much more of my day scrubbing potatoes, kneading, chopping stalks off things, and scrubbing out used woks. I while away the time fantasizing that I'm a wartime housewife and any minute now a handsome GI will arrive to sweep me off my feet with some black-market nylons.

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