“What kinds of things do you like to sew?” “Dresses, mostly. I love fashion.” I swallow. “And my mother taught me how to embroider. I liked to create the scenes she would tell me in her stories as a child. I would pretend I was living in them.” I shake my head. “It’s silly, really.” “No,” he says. “It doesn’t sound silly at all. What else do you like to do?” “Well. . . I like to read, I suppose.”
