Some Things Are Best Left In The Past

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This old gal had a friend once…

Who said she saved an item of clothing from each decade…thought that was such a cool idea young-me got a storage tote and labeled it ‘Clothes from the past’…

Those daughters of mine got a kick out of the label…thought it was funny…did the wink wink nudge nudge thing with comments like, “Maybe it’s in your(drum roll here) ‘Clothes from the past’ tote.”

And maybe it was, if we were looking for prom dresses from the 70s, pants from the 80s, a jumper from the 90’s, a dress from the 2000’s…

That daughter of mine got a new pair of pants recently…sent a picture, and what would you know, those pants used to be in the ‘Clothes from the past’ tote…

Well not THOSE pants exactly, but pants just like them…high waisted flowered pants…loved the pants…loved, loved, loved the print…and funny thing, once nostalgic-me started thinking about those pants, she started to see that pink flowery print everywhere…

On buses, on chickens, on jackets in restaurants, on jackets in ads…kind of wanted to go back…get those pants out of ‘Clothes from the past’ and join in the fun…

That is, of course, if ‘Clothes from the past’ hadn’t been dismantled during the move…and if belly-blob me could actually squeeze her belly-blobbed waist into a size 6 high waisted pair of pants…

And so it is…some things are best left in the past…or perhaps the past is best left for the future…pass on that torch to that daughter of mine, who apparently likes flowery pants just as much as her mother…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…