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[Tzivia Adler]

> Don't underestimate the skills of the little femme powderpuff, unless you
 have a taste for takeout food and are comfortable in guy-type conditions at 
home, or have a housekeeper, and take torn hems to the tailor or (like one 
woman of my acquaintance) uses the stapler on them. (She thinks hand sewing 
is an art as arcane as flint-knapping. It probably is these days.)
 Pat, reared to those skills
>
huh.  never thought of myself as a powder-puff.  but, when i was a teen and 
ripped my hems, my mom pointed me to the needle and thread.  the seamstress 
was for fancy clothing needing repairs, not basic skirt/shirt rips.
as for food - when i got married, my husband was a better cook then me. 
i've learned since then, and my food is generally better htan take-out. 
also cheaper, which is a bonus :)

unfortunately, the computer programming company wehre i worked went out of 
business about the same time i got married, and i couln't find a new job 
before maternity clothing convinced the hiring folks that anyone else would 
be better :(
after a few years of going crazy at home with infants and toddlers, i have 
fallen into the traditional female job of teaching, which i always swore i'd 
never do.

ziviya, whose crystal ball never predicted this future.