Opened the door, saw her standing there, and suddenly realized that I had been wearing the same yellow cotton house dress night and day since Saturday. She was wearing clean jeans and an ironed cotton top with little flowers.

I used to live in jeans. Always too tight now.

The yellow house dress came from a yard sale. Snaps up in front. The kind I wouldn't have been caught dead in, in the fifties. There were a lot of them. I bought them all.

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