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Photo by Steve Lehman  

Wanda Bowling on daily chores.


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  audio Wanda Bowling — who works nights, 4:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., in a factory 90 minutes away — hangs laundry. Women in the family say they prefer rain water for washing clothes. Wanda talks about water, no small issue — even Iree brought cooking water from a spring until she had saved the dollars to have her own well dug.

"It's 1998 and we just last year put running water in the house, into my kitchen sink. We did it ourselves. We bought line, hooked into Iree's well, dug up a ditch and ran it to the house. But I still need a bathroom and a septic tank. I got a rinse tub that we take a bath in. I'd rather have a bathtub, but meanwhile I can make do."


 


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