We are all mansions. Beautiful and full of secrets. With many little everyday maintenance jobs to keep ourselves up.

It’s easy to collect clutter and then just hide it in the attic and when that’s full, we move down a tidier floor, but then, you see, that can build up too and then the floor boards start to crack with the weight, so best we run to another room and lock the door to the mess that we left behind and open a little window, leave in some air.

But then, it might start to rain and then there is a drip. And all of a sudden, everywhere is messy and this mansion, is falling apart.

And it’s almost as though there is no one living there at all. No one to maintain. It’s best we clean as we go.

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