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She is going to do her first sewing project during March break. At 8, she has no idea what that will be like. Anything is possible when you are 8. She wants to make something beautiful to wear, something that only she can picture.
He fancied himself a gourmet, looked down his nose at his mother's plain, old-fashioned cooking. He was forgetting that it was her abilities to cook fresh, ordinary food that saved the family enough money so that he wouldn't need to get a student loan.
Tomorrow is International Women's Day, and I think of the women who had the nerve, as suffragettes, to demonstrate publicly with their intentions to recognized as legitimate people, not possessions or decorations.
Sometimes she wished that she lived in town. The country was lovely, but walking would be so interesting if she could actually walk to a destination instead of just "going for a walk". She had been the one who wanted the country home, so she couldn't complain.