He earned money washing dishes at a sorority house and unloading freight at the railroad station.

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Gift certificate for a day of yard work, house cleaning, window washing, or car washing.

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Using drones, they studied the occupants and counted laundry on the washing line to guess how many adults lived in the house.

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The next day he began a clean-up operation at his home, washing the dining room carpet and scrubbing every inch of the house with what one police officer recalled was a "lemony" cleaning fluid.

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And of all places, they were assigned to help out on Kansas Avenue. (Laughter and applause.) I don't know who set that up. (Laughter.) And while they hauled away washing machines and refrigerators from the debris, they met a woman named Carol Mann, who had just lost the house she lived in for 18 years.

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