Simple Forms, a small design firm in Porto, has won recognition for its elegant cork-rubber bathroom sink.

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Italian newspapers reported that the pope fell and hit his head against a bathroom sink during the trip.

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But every morning, I watched my father wake up with a smile, grab his walker, prop himself up against the bathroom sink, and slowly shave and button his uniform.

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" He also loves "that touch of a little vase of sweet tulips or a few stems of gardenia, something fresh, in the bathroom by the sink.

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There were three other mirrors in the house: the mirror over the sink in the upstairs bathroom, the mirror over the sink in the downstairs half bath, and the small circular mirror with a wooden handle that hung on a hook beside the upstairs-bathroom window.

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He had a bottle to urinate in and was allotted one five- to ten-minute trip each day to a rotting bathroom to empty his bowels and wash with water at a dirty sink.

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When I looked up from the sink I saw her in the mirror, standing outside the bathroom, her hands clasped against her waist, like a person in prayer.

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