Homeworky

When I very patiently pointed out that proper parents – the kind who really love their daughters – buy presents as a reward for good grades, do you know what she said? ‘I’ll treat you to a chocolate-chip muffin next time we’re in Trotters.’ Hours and hours of hard homeworky slog rewarded with a stingy bit of cake in an old person’s café.

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When you or Mom would come in my room to check up on me on a school night, I’d just hide the game on my screen behind a Word document and pretend to be doing homework. Same thing with AOL Instant Messaging. I’d always have a homeworky-looking document ready to hide my IMing from you when you came in my room.

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In a blink, I’m back on Fergus’s laptop, checking everything he’s looked at during the past few days. There’s a web page about the construction of the Eiffel Tower, and another on the role of the viola in an orchestra. It’s all innocent, homeworky stuff.

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That’s really what this chapter is all about: clearing the outdated and unworkable elements from your closet and transforming it into a glamorous, thoughtfully edited space, ready to fill with fun, interchangeable pieces that make you up-to-the-minute chic. Now here’s the homeworky part. To do that, you’ve gotta give some things the boot—maybe even your boots.

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