The Pill defined my upbringing, paid for the clothes I wore to school, and sent me to college.

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At the Abundant Life Church in Moore, just a few blocks from the Plaza Towers Elementary School where seven children died in the May 20 tornado, Sunday school classrooms are overflowing with donated clothes and other used items.

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Reluctant consumers may just wait for those back-to-school clothes to hit the bargain bins in October.

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Beloved by A-listers and pop princesses, these are not clothes for the shy: this is old-school glamour, infused with power, wielded by women who have flounced and shimmied their way to the top.

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An overseas assignment sounds glamorous and romantic, but then you find it takes three days to convince the leasing company to hook up the clothes dryer, you can't communicate with the corner butcher and your kids hate their new school and long for their friends.

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