As Roy waited on the stoop, Susanne, with a vacuum hose in hand her exhausted life came into view.

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The hose on the suction sampler looks much like the hose on your vacuum cleaner, and perhaps they were hiding in the corrugations.

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To replace the force of gravity to ensure waste goes down into the toilet, there is actually a vacuum hose that sucks the waste.

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