Clothes washed by her always smelled better than clothes that I myself had washed, in the same machine, using the same detergent.

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Lady was good to you, took care of you when you was a little boy, wiped your behind, cleaned your diapers, washed your clothes when I couldn't get to it.

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He washed their clothes and he cleansed their wounds.

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Both men visit a drop-in centre for the homeless in west Belfast, where they are able to get their clothes washed and eat their only guaranteed warm meal of the day.

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At night, he washed and ironed her clothes.

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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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And he washed up on Ithaca without any clothes on.

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With his clothes cut to shreds, Tom looked like someone washed up on shore after a shipwreck, tattered and clinging to a single plank.

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But, wearing the same clothes she was in when the storm hit two days before, which a friend had washed and pressed, Davis told me she wants to rebuild, even at 94.

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