That afternoon, Huong secretly packed a suitcase and stuffed some of my clothes into a duffelbag.
The petrol soaks into my clothes, its cold sting reaching the zipper of my jeans.
"I used to get into trouble for cutting the sleeves off my clothes, " he jokes.
Well after leaving, the fragrance of woodsmoke lingered on my clothes and hair.
Sure, I like the way my clothes are literally hanging off of me.
"Sometimes I have to take off all my clothes and shake them out to find one, " he adds cheerfully.
"I buy all my clothes in thrift shops, " noted Ms. Reist as they sat in his Upper East Side pied-a-terre.
Mine was called the Belladonna suite (after a dangerous herbal remedy of yore) and included plush armchairs and an armoire for my clothes.
He turned up late: "I was arrested and held - they said my clothes were too new and that I was on the streets too late, " he told me.
"I used to get a lot of mail from ladies wanting to know if I ever sold any of my clothes and where did I get them, " she says.
As we approach the hospice, children from the orphanage cling to my clothes, begging in Creole for me to take their picture so they can see themselves on the display of my digital camera.
Mrs Warren has spent up to 23 hours a day wearing the mask and said it had "almost become part of my clothes" and that saying goodbye to it was "almost like saying goodbye to a friend".
The guest rooms and suites also feature an intelligent-thermostat system, though when I visited, it wasn't hitting on all cylinders: My room was perpetually chilly, and my clothes and sheets slightly damp--humidity being a major annoyance in this seaside megacity.
"I wore my own clothes back then, which were not very good, and I cut my own hair, which also was not very good, " Ms. Williams said.
After our appointment, I had piles for donations and alterations, and new ideas about my old clothes.
In other words, I saved enough money on my utility bills to pay for my new clothes dryer in only six months.
"This is why I became a dressmaker because I could make my own clothes and actually avoid this entire scenario of having to traipse around and find something that may fit without having to compromise, " she says.
My classmates wore clothes that were threadbare even by the standards of rural China back then.
"I started out light, just like the piece, and I reached a crescendo with my more dramatic clothes, " Herrerra explained.
Some of the clothes my sisters and I wore were handmade (we came from a family of expert embroiderers and knitters).
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My wardrobe still consists solely of clothes that are appropriate to my proportions.
It would mean packing way too much in order to make sure my kids had clean clothes the entire week.
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So now that my foot has healed, I'm going back to the youthinator, putting on my running shoes, keeping Rob's phone number tucked in the back pocket of my work-out clothes, hobbling over to the recumbent bike in the corner of the advanced orthopedic rehabilitation center, and for 30 minutes a day pedaling furiously backward toward my youth.
This process involved travel, time, money, speaking at length about my previous experiences, and, most painfully, several hours of wearing proper work clothes and blow-drying my hair ( straight hair and I are not good friends).
She threw in slight OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) for good measure, to which I scoffed, thinking of the clothes strewn about my house.
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