“Will the pool make us cleaner or dirtier?” I asked my husband, lying in the shade and clocking how grimy he and the kids and I all were after two days of no power or running water. It was the summer of 2020, and—after being cooped up in the city for the first few months of COVID—we were living with his parents in the rural Berkshires.
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