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Dressing Up
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-37Dressing Up It will not do to say to her, Child, the time will come for all this. It is better to watch from another room as she smears on lipstick and rouge before the mirror by her bed, lost in her mother’s summer dress, gloves and high heels and hat, swallowed by what she will grow into. But that, we say, is all right, as if there were more that we could do or say. We are merely here to feed her dreams and see that they are pleasing until she awakes, a strange face in a mirror beside some other bed, with lace and gloves, hat and shoes of her own shape and of her choosing. ...