When our mother went to the ladies' room, Danielle briefed me on what I'd missed.

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It's a low-rent joint: The ladies' room is housed in a corrugated-steel shed.

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It seemed that every time I went to the ladies' room, June was there, applying mascara, combing her long, dark tresses and chatting.

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For starters, it's 40, 000 square feet: I got lost trying to find the restroom, and that was within the ladies' changing room.

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Aboard the Normandie, the piano now up for sale occupied the ladies' drawing room and music room, which was decorated with Ruhlmann's furniture in tribute to the French designer, who died in 1933.

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And so it's hardly worth complaining that the cafe chairs make an awful screech when dragged on those concrete floors, and that there's still a line to the ladies room at intermission when the audiences of two of the three theaters come out to stretch.

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