My great-aunt was a seamstress. When I was a little girl (younger than eight) I used to help my great-aunt out by doing some of the simpler piece-work that paid the rent. I even knew how to use a foot-powered sewing machine, the old fashioned kind made out of wrought-iron.
So when we were having a back-and-forth on my …
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