The results at Maytag--300 layoffs in the past 18 months and warnings last month that the flagship laundry machine factory is in deep trouble--have sent town leaders on a desperate scramble to secure a new economic lifeline.

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It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine.

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One time, my mother was emptying out a load of laundry into the washing machine, and she heard this strange noise and looked and saw that my father had taken the clarinet apart piece by piece and hid it in the dirty laundry.

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