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The Blue Bathroom!!

When we moved to this house in 1982 to start the retreat house, my sister, parents, and I shared the corner of the house with the blue fixtures – “The Blue Bathroom.”  We did despise those blue fixtures.  My mom tried to minimize their impact by picking up on the brown in the linoleum floor and papering the walls with a brown and blue wall paper. I asked her recently what she thought of those blue fixtures when they first bought the place.  She said “ugh!” in a very emotive fashion. 

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