But the hamper soon overflowed and the family had begun tossing their dirty clothes in its general direction.

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We, too, threw on more and more layers --mostly dirty clothes, as we'd been on the road for two weeks.

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Obsessed with work, he never married, bathed infrequently and wore dirty clothes.

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Kusum, 14, another girl from Jharkhand says she used to "live carelessly with torn and dirty clothes" but now she has learned how to stay clean.

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Um Ahmed's daughters and their friends fill the tent with their stories -- of children's dirty clothes, of not showering in more than four weeks, of water too muddy to even make tea.

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Many of them have been commandeered by the city's large homeless population, who slip away in the light of day but leave behind evidence of their existence dirty clothes scattered about, a bedroll where they slept, empty cans and plastic foam containers from what passed for a meal.

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The caller said that the children were "not cared for properly" as they were dirty and their clothes were not washed.

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However, if your mother-in-law is otherwise clean (washes her hands regularly, spot-cleans parts of her body that are dirty on a daily basis, and wears clean clothes for example) and is fully responsible for herself in other ways, this issue may not be a problem for her.

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