Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
A Yen For Cleaning
Some people vacation in Yellowstone, Aruba, or New Orleans. Others go to Bali to lie on white beaches, or to the Himalayas to climb mountains. I went to Japan to clean toilets.
Louise Rafkin
Louise Rafkin is a writer and housecleaner. “A Yen for Cleaning” is excerpted from her book Other People’s Dirt: A Housecleaner’s Adeventures from Cape Cod to Kyoto.
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