A Particular Friendship
Viewing comments for Chapter 28 "Sweaters"We meet Lizzy who has just come out of the convent
10 total reviews
Comment from Ulla
Hi Liz, I really liked this. I'm so glad you've gotten over all that anxiety. It's very well written and I enjoyed it. You're so aware of the spacing which is a bit of a distraction. Ulla xcx
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Hi Liz, I really liked this. I'm so glad you've gotten over all that anxiety. It's very well written and I enjoyed it. You're so aware of the spacing which is a bit of a distraction. Ulla xcx
Comment Written 16-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your supportive review. I'm glad you enjoyed it so much.
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Bless you. I hope all is well.
Although are strongly aware of the proverbial cash register metaphor. - (We) are?
Not only the spacing, but the font size seemed to have an issue, as well.
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Bless you. I hope all is well.
Although are strongly aware of the proverbial cash register metaphor. - (We) are?
Not only the spacing, but the font size seemed to have an issue, as well.
Best wishes.
Comment Written 16-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your understanding review.
Comment from eliz100
This is another excellent biographical story. I have come to view your stories as independent from each other. And all of them add up to your life. I do not see any room for improvement. Have a blessed day.
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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This is another excellent biographical story. I have come to view your stories as independent from each other. And all of them add up to your life. I do not see any room for improvement. Have a blessed day.
Comment Written 16-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your appreciative review. I'm glad you're seeing how things go in themes in our life. They really do don't they? I hadn't really thought of it in the way you have. We follow the same theme many times throughout our life.
Comment from LateBloomer
Hi Liz, kids can be so cruel. I could relate to your story. When it came to fashion clothing, I had little of that and most things. Of special note:
We've learned to not get very excited, because we will surely be disappointed.
(I felt the same way as a child. My father became an alcoholic, and life was was filled with chaos. Life was brutal for my mother and oldest brother who tried to protect her. Life changed for me when I went to work. Because of my early years, I say the following...Boring is good because the opposite of boring is chaos.)
Well done; well told. I could visualize the sweater. In fact, I think that they are coming back into fashion. Have a "boring" evening. Margaret
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Hi Liz, kids can be so cruel. I could relate to your story. When it came to fashion clothing, I had little of that and most things. Of special note:
We've learned to not get very excited, because we will surely be disappointed.
(I felt the same way as a child. My father became an alcoholic, and life was was filled with chaos. Life was brutal for my mother and oldest brother who tried to protect her. Life changed for me when I went to work. Because of my early years, I say the following...Boring is good because the opposite of boring is chaos.)
Well done; well told. I could visualize the sweater. In fact, I think that they are coming back into fashion. Have a "boring" evening. Margaret
Comment Written 15-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your vulnerable review. This observation is perfect.As anAdult Child, you will definitely appreciate my next theme coming up.
I'm glad you were able to get away from some of the chaos by going to work, although we may create our own chaos when we're not even at home. Hopefully your work was calm.
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I first went to work for JP Morgan. That was a very calm and stable environment. I worked there for over a decade. They were very happy years. Later, when I married, moved out of NYC, and had children, I returned to work as a realtor--flexible schedule with 3 kids. That had its share of chaos, and instability. However, from my early years of chaos, and the street smarts learned in Hell's Kitchen, I handled people, especially difficult people, very well. I'll have to check out your next chapter. Margaret
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It will be: Ch 29 Adult child challenges
As soon as my points run out for ch 28
Comment from BethShelby
I don't remember anyone being made fun of because of what they wore. Kids can be very cruel though.In my school kids who were extremely overweight or cried easily were teased. One girl studdered really bad. I was on the pep squad and we all had to wear expensive white swearters. It was a bad choice.
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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I don't remember anyone being made fun of because of what they wore. Kids can be very cruel though.In my school kids who were extremely overweight or cried easily were teased. One girl studdered really bad. I was on the pep squad and we all had to wear expensive white swearters. It was a bad choice.
Comment Written 15-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 16-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your involved review . So you had a white sweater too? Was it boiled wool? Oh man, I don't know as you say, What were they thinking?
Comment from lyenochka
You tell of a simple thing as a sweater and what it can mean to a child "on the wrong side of the street" and the way society treats a child that is labeled like that. Thanks for giving us insight. I would not have known. My mom mostly made my clothes and I never thought much about it. It gave her joy, saved money, and frankly, I wasn't picky or fashion-conscious.
I wasn't sure why sometimes the font was so small - as in "The following day while sitting in tandem desks during my sophomore English class with my best friend, Sarah, I would be ...:"
reply by the author on 14-Feb-2024
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You tell of a simple thing as a sweater and what it can mean to a child "on the wrong side of the street" and the way society treats a child that is labeled like that. Thanks for giving us insight. I would not have known. My mom mostly made my clothes and I never thought much about it. It gave her joy, saved money, and frankly, I wasn't picky or fashion-conscious.
I wasn't sure why sometimes the font was so small - as in "The following day while sitting in tandem desks during my sophomore English class with my best friend, Sarah, I would be ...:"
Comment Written 14-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 14-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your gentle review. I do not know what has happened with the spacing & annoying aspects of the text. I had it all set up right. and then when someone told me later on I needed work I looked at it and it was all messed up so I have no idea I feel badly people have to deal with we annoyance. I don't have the courage to check to see if there's stuff that got messed up again. I don't have the courage
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
I realized I would never have the fancy shoes or matching sweater sets, so I made my own clothes, and they were totally different from what anyone else wore. I continued that on into college and within two months most of my clothes had been stolen. People began paying me to design clothes for them. I liked this story because you accomplished what you wanted, and then you realized how futile white was in such a dirty environment. I'll bet many white sweatered kids didn't catch on to that. Your spacing really did come out weird.
reply by the author on 14-Feb-2024
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I realized I would never have the fancy shoes or matching sweater sets, so I made my own clothes, and they were totally different from what anyone else wore. I continued that on into college and within two months most of my clothes had been stolen. People began paying me to design clothes for them. I liked this story because you accomplished what you wanted, and then you realized how futile white was in such a dirty environment. I'll bet many white sweatered kids didn't catch on to that. Your spacing really did come out weird.
Comment Written 13-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 14-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review. Thank you for your gentle review. I do not know what has happened with the spacing & annoying aspects of the text. I had it all set up right. and then when someone told me later on I needed work I looked at it and it was all messed up so I have no idea I feel badly people have to deal with we annoyance. I don't have the courage to check to see if there's stuff that got messed up again. I don't have the courage.
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How cool the things were stolen because they liked them, that's wonderful. Kind of ironic but wonderful.
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Twice I have ended up with 10 copies of my submission and they are hard to delete. I have no idea how that happens.
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OMG you too? I think it makes me appear inept . Oh I don't like that. bwaaa
Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
Isn't it odd that some things become our benchmark for normal? If we could just have this or own this or wear this, then we would belong or fit in. We would be accepted if only... do we ever truly learn? :-)
You explained everything well. Growing up is hard work. Karen
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2024
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Isn't it odd that some things become our benchmark for normal? If we could just have this or own this or wear this, then we would belong or fit in. We would be accepted if only... do we ever truly learn? :-)
You explained everything well. Growing up is hard work. Karen
Comment Written 13-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2024
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Thank you for your concerned review. A great observation and question. Looking at a lot of this stuff in retrospect is quite educational.
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I was going to mention the spacing issues, but I see you noticed too. Sometimes stuff happens. Thank you for sharing this post with us. I know it will help people who grew up in similar situations.
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The next day while sitting in tandem desks (The following day)
Sarah, Iwould be wearing the special sweater. (I would)
I kept putting my arm next to Sarah's (arm beside Sarah's0
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2024
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I was going to mention the spacing issues, but I see you noticed too. Sometimes stuff happens. Thank you for sharing this post with us. I know it will help people who grew up in similar situations.
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The next day while sitting in tandem desks (The following day)
Sarah, Iwould be wearing the special sweater. (I would)
I kept putting my arm next to Sarah's (arm beside Sarah's0
Comment Written 13-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2024
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Thank you for the enlightening review and the appreciative review.
Comment from patcelaw
I enjoyed very much your touching story of a sweater when you were in school. I could almost see the sweater that you were longing to have Hennan to see that later on after you wore it to school, that the dirty desk and the books and the various things that were so dirty would make the sweater dirty and it have to be washed. I know that must've broken your heart. I am so glad that you got the counseling that you needed to help you over that difficulty. I had a father, who was quite cruel to us children he was never want to smoke or he never drank, but he was so mean to us his kids and it took me a long time to get over that as well but I did get over it and I'd now know that by learning from what I saw at home, I was able to become a very good parent. By the way on the sweater, talk my daughter and I were just talking about a sweater that I made for her when she was leaving to go to college. It was an off-white sweater and it was done with A Honeycomb panel down the front of it hand knitted. It was the first time I had ever tried to do the honeycomb pattern and it turned out lovely and she says she still has it in her chest. Patricia.
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2024
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I enjoyed very much your touching story of a sweater when you were in school. I could almost see the sweater that you were longing to have Hennan to see that later on after you wore it to school, that the dirty desk and the books and the various things that were so dirty would make the sweater dirty and it have to be washed. I know that must've broken your heart. I am so glad that you got the counseling that you needed to help you over that difficulty. I had a father, who was quite cruel to us children he was never want to smoke or he never drank, but he was so mean to us his kids and it took me a long time to get over that as well but I did get over it and I'd now know that by learning from what I saw at home, I was able to become a very good parent. By the way on the sweater, talk my daughter and I were just talking about a sweater that I made for her when she was leaving to go to college. It was an off-white sweater and it was done with A Honeycomb panel down the front of it hand knitted. It was the first time I had ever tried to do the honeycomb pattern and it turned out lovely and she says she still has it in her chest. Patricia.
Comment Written 13-Feb-2024
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2024
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What a sweet review. Thank you for sharing your vulnerability also. As long as we both could take what we learned and help others it's good lt's worth it.
