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Four years of college, tons of debt, and I need two jobs just to pay the bills. I should have majored in Not Being Poor.
Maybe because she’s been married three times, Bessie doesn’t have a sense of romance like I do. I can’t go home without a Christmas present for my husband. I can’t.
“It is up to you. Someday you will think back on this Christmas and how your vanity got in the way of buying a meaningful present for your husband.”
“Do not be sad,” Helga says in that sage-like way of hers. “This is love. You sacrifice for him. He sacrifices for you.”
Hair is power. In the Bible, the source of Samson’s strength was his hair, and when the beautiful Delilah tricked him and cut it off, she stripped him of his power.
