While most of y’all were going in on me for being the first to bring
As if
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Oh yeah… let’s not forget about Marlo’s issues with the African girls’ nappy hair.
But that’s all in the past, right?
That being said…
Clothes is where it started, but pretty things of all kinds would soon take over as family, and a connection to them, became more and more fleeting. Pretty hair would follow clothes, then furniture and eventually a pretty home.[Sidebar: First comes furniture, THEN comes a home? Aiight then... ]
But wait… there’s more!
My family, or rather, various members of it, would at different times fall into drug addiction, nieces and nephews would follow into the foster care system, and love, the true kind, the kind I had searched for my whole life, never came.Cue the violins… *sigh*
More and more I needed to fill the emptiness, and cars and trips and expensive food and labels would have to make up for having less.
Clothes were my refuge, clothes were what I could have, clothes had to fill the void where a mother and a father, a loving home, and a family should have been.
Clothes are important to me and they lie at the core of who I am.["Superficial": concerned with or comprehending with only what is on the surface (ie CLOTHES!) or obvious. Shallow, not profound or thorough]
But I know that there will come a day when I will have the most precious label of all, one I have searched for my whole life, the one I will be most proud of.I can’t wait either
One day, I will have a family and I will speak about them glowingly, I will show them off and I will go to them when I want to smile. I can’t wait to see this design…
I wonder how she’ll fit all those
Hmmmm…. stay tuned!
Could designer clothes and fancy things be a replacement for family?
Thoughts?
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Read more: http://straightfromthea.com/2012/02/22/marlo-hampton-explains-how-designer-clothes-replace-her-family/#ixzz1nDNBKzR7
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