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When Did I Stop Wearing a Bra?

Plus, looking back on the good things from a long summer with kids

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Jo Piazza
Sep 01, 2023
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black and white stripe brassiere
Photo by Uliana Kopanytsia on Unsplash

I was cleaning out boxes of my old stuff (like real old high school time stuff) recently and I found an entire box of just Victoria’s Secret bras. Those bras are intensely Proustian in their own way. Touch one and you’re immediately transported to your local mall, pink walls, sickenly sweet body spray, gilded drawer…

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