She was very skilled at making clothes fit "just right", and had a good steady clientele. Sandy wanted a skirt altered, so had organised to come over ...one weekend.Now, my dear old Mum's biggest fault, is that she can be easy going, and rarely closed the door to her sewing room fully.Sitting at our kitchen table, you could easily see all that was going on in there, not that I had needed to do so prior to this, as most of Mum's work was for older people or really young c***dren. YUK!It just so. "Mrs. Gould smiled, "First let me say how proud I am of you two. I know this must have been hard for you to bring to me. It's good to know Jen had friends that care this much about her."Second, I know all about how Jen has been changing lately and I promise that it'll all make perfect sense."As you both know, my husband left me a few months ago," Angela and Paula nodded sympathetically. They'd suspected all along that Mr. Gould's leaving had something to do with it, "and lately I've been. I think she wasafraid that if he did, I wouldn't try living as Megan. Truth was Iprobably would have started living as Megan either way.In celebration, she decided we needed to go shopping. Apparently Ineeded all kinds of new clothes if I was going to make this change areality. ---I had a couple of outfits for Megan in my closet from previous outings,and mom made me change into a pair of jeans and a pink top after forcingme to take a shower and shave my legs and underarms. She then tied myhair. With this encouragement he began making more and more suggestions, which she avidly followed. For the salmon he proposed a homemade dill butter sauce which he had made before as a garnish, and when she didn’t have all of the necessary spices and ingredients he dashed down to his apartment for them. He also brought back a number of different vegetables to add to the ones which she had, along with his favorite wok as she didn’t have one, so that he could make one of his special stir fries to.
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