I moved overseas in late summer of my third year. My mom's memory of moving to a new country with a 2.5 year old and a 7 month suggests it was supreme chaos. She sent a letter to family in the states with a story of finding me outside sobbing, "What's wrong?" she wanted to know. I responded, "Papa and Grandmother's boy is in a new country." Obviously I missed my grandparents. No doubt they missed me, too, because they quickly booked a flight to see me a few months later. My grandmother described the house as having a shower, restroom and laundry room combined. The drain for the shower was in the floor of the bathroom. One could sit on the toilet and shower. The problem with the system was the drains did not work well. After a shower the floor flooded. After draining a load of clothes from the washing machine, the floors flooded. Sometimes flushing the toilet the floors flooded. Hence, we had shower shoes wit...
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