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  1. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    For Every Right Way, There’s a Wrong Way (opens the original)

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    Recently, in order to prepare for a houseguest, I had to make the bed in the guest room. As I did so, I remembered that, of course, since the bed has a length longer than the width, so do the sheets. Makes sense. But after I got the sheet on the bed, I saw that I still managed to do it wrong, because there’s a particular end of the sheet meant for the head of the bed and one for the foot of the bed. The end that goes at the head of the bed has an extra sewn hem. As I redid my work, it occurred t

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