28 june 2003.

i hand her the shiny silver pieces and she smiles and is probably thinking she will buy herself extra fruit at the grocery store this weekend. a real treat.

back home i slip into my purchase and am relieved and even more surprised at its perfect fit. i fasten the material together, barely even discolored, and wonder if i resemble at all what the woman who once owned this looked like. i wonder what she was doing when she was nineteen on a sunny saturday in june.

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