Collecting bottles, tossing leftovers, taking out the garbage
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S.J. Dunning lives in Tacoma, Washington. She’s currently working on a memoir and a collection of poems.
We’re on our way to an REO — a “real-estate-owned” property, or foreclosed home — in Dryden, Washington, about an hour’s drive from Ellensburg, where we both live. My dad does maintenance on bank-owned houses. I finished graduate school this past June, and I’ve been his sidekick ever since.