Despite Jennifer’s age, pink was still the main color of her personal space. Thank you, Mr. My daughters have all been styled differently for their Festivals, and they all got top marks in that area, and I help several other girls each year with lots of different aspects of preparation. It was a very painful procedure, he said, and she wouldn’t want to still be healing when her big night came. Jennifer seemed oddly interested in this, and asked exactly how painful it would be. Ramer, I didn’t mean to cover myself,’ she apologized, smiling and looking him in the eye like a mature, polite woman and carefully speaking the phrases she’d learned in her etiquette classes. The general rule was that young girls should wear the least amount of clothing appropriate in any given circumstance; they needed to be accustomed to being visually enjoyed by others at all times, and it was a sign of poor upbringing if a girl was excessively covered. You need to try this.’
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