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i don't think this girl owned a name brand clothing item in her life. i just remember her saying her shirts don't fit anymore (probably because puberty had recently struck) and she needed some new shirts, and prowling the $5 rack at Wal-Mart with her so she could afford 2 shirts and still buy some lip gloss. So we're not talking $60 blue jeans or fancy sneakers. i really do mean this to be general, though, and not about that one girl, but it did prompt the question. The only time i ever saw her with new clothing (she had a few outfits i learned quickly) was when she bought it on our outings together with her allowance. With her other comments, too, i suspect she didn't have any clothes paid for from her normal stipend. Most of what she bought with allowance was normal pre-teen allowance stuff (lip gloss, earrings, hair do-hickey), but the shirts because the others were too small and the dollar store tampons really stuck with me.
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