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Scarlett and the boy
He was very good to her. It was his birthday. She got her gifts together and tucked cash in the card. Scarlett took care of her service providers.
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Tagged birthday card, Etsy, fashion, gifts, handmade, men, pizza, strength, tee shirt, teen boy, wallet
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Velma ponders
Velma couldn’t understand her friend’s sharpness. Susan was darling. Her baby had invigorated Velma. Velma persisted in the relationship. Velma filled her bag with bread and staples, tossing in a toy for the baby.
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Tagged art, bag, bread, car, fine art photo, home decor, model t, photograph, strength, toy, truck
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Velma
Velma nodded along as her new rooming house friend expounded on the politics of buying handmade. Then retreated to her room. She had a lot to think about. She sat in her hardbacked chair staring out the window while the … Continue reading
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Tagged elegance, Etsy, extra girls, fashion, handmade, historical, historical fiction, history, ice cream, imagined, meditation, nap, retro, rooming house, silent space, spinster, strength, women, women's history
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Vesta
“Handmade is all about thinking,” Vesta explained to Velma, her new friend at the rooming house. “Handmade allows, encourages, demands that people think. Lights. Cars. Telephones. Radios. Televisions. Computers. Society-changing developments all start off handmade. Handmade is new, fresh, thought-provoking. … Continue reading
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Vesta
Velma admired Vesta. Always collected, reading voraciously, undeterred by gossip or the tag ‘spinster,’ conservatively but impeccably dressed. This evening’s partywear was in character, neck and ankles at either end of a grey-green wool crepe suit. Unwrinkled and completely buttoned … Continue reading
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Imagined spaces
The party was in the city! Several of her library colleagues would be in attendance, but Velma was riding with Vesta, another rooming house extra girl, in her old Model A Ford. Silly, she knew, but Velma could not sleep … Continue reading
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Velma
Velma is going to a party. She’s been at the rooming house for several weeks, shocked to move in with all those other women. Extra girls, spinsters, they refer to themselves as singles or ‘new women’ though not one of … Continue reading
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Tagged elegance, extra girls, fall fashion, fashion, giddy, gossip, group living, hat, hats, historical, history, imagined, librarian, library, meditation, new woman, New Women, party, retro, rooming house, spinster, strength, transformation, volunteer, women, women's history
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Imagined Spaces
When I look at myself in that picture, it all comes flooding back. That summer at the girls’ camp, my first time away from home. It was a gutwrenching heartbreaking time. My first foray, sent away all summer while my … Continue reading
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Imagined spaces
World War II inadvertently left this sheltered spot: three row homes and a barn on the edge of town. This street had been quite near the center of town but the center could not hold, as they say, and it … Continue reading
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Velma
Velma is sitting in the garden writing some postcards to the girls back in New York. “Dear Scarlett: Although I miss the city terribly, I am settling in at my new abode and making friends with my “spinster” sisters here. … Continue reading
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