My incurable addiction to people-watching resulted in me spending most of an afternoon in a dress shop so expensive I don’t think there was a single item there that I could buy without a loan or selling one of my children. It actually became an epiphany for me. I watched some very intelligent and talented women whose lives had been consumed by the opinions of others shop for clothes to wear to events they did not want to attend in order to impress people, many of whom they did not like and some they did not even know. I came away with what I think are two major truths about life as we know it.

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