5 There was a photograph from my mother’s high school prom: one row of girls in pastel dresses, frothy as flowers. A second row of them dressed in shirts of sheer pineapple fabric and dark trousers, hair pomade-slicked like gallants. Perhaps some felt born to play the part. But that part of the reel is broken or scissored out, or was never meant to see the light.
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