What My Father Wouldn’t Clean

And all the things children will pick up along the way

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After he started taking pills in earnest, my dad was pretty concerned about cleanliness and swept the porch constantly. Or maybe he was just wrestling with the demons that inevitably reawakened every time the pills wore off — he always told me that the Lortabs he snorted were the poor man’s cocaine. When he finished with…