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Fri 17 Feb, 2012 09:10 pm
The children played barefoot in the courtyard, running in between
the cottons drying on the line and reaching for each other’s hair, their
untidy dresses smeared with the grubby marks of childhood freedom.
@kkfengdao,
"The line" is a clothes line. It would be a rope or cable stretched between two posts. You hang clothes on the clothes line outdoors to dry the clothes
@contrex,
I believe those to be professional clothes. That, or there's a circus in town.