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My dim closet swells with two rows of dresses, skirts, pants, and shirts. I stand before it all, neck craned and hands on my hips. Ive got wet hair and a towel wrapped around me with that one question swirling: “What is a girl to wear?” The women at the Reformed church in town had called, wondering […]
Kayla is a 22-year-old college graduate. Just two weeks ago, she earned her degree, and she is already one of the richest women I know. She’s sitting across the dining-room table from me after we clear the supper dishes. She is all these things: poised, articulate, smart, determined. She’s wearing a white dress, and runs […]
If we were in Iowa, these would be the crazy friends who’d pile into the GMC Acadia with me, and we’d crank up some ’80s music and sing like rock-stars into our air-microphones all the way into the city. We’d make a scene in the shampoo aisle at Target, then laugh about it again while […]
Charlotte Bronte once said it: “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” I think of the truth in Charlotte’s words when Marie Therese tells me her life philosophy in a few simple words. Marie Therese speaks through an interpreter, but she looks right at me when she’s talking, like maybe […]