“All You Do Is Take,” My Father Said—So I Stopped Paying

water came from, never wondered about the pipes or the pressure or whether the well might run dry. They just turned the handle, filled whatever container they were holding, and walked away without shutting it off.

I was twenty-nine when I finally shut it off myself. But I need to go back further than that, because the faucet didn’t install itself.

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