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Get this for nadamania...when I was in the fifth grade I was so excited about

going to my very first dance. It was Chirstmas time and near my birthday so

I thought for sure everything would be magical...remember when this season

was about magic? Anyway, in my head I envisioned myself dancing around in

the purple Jordache jeans that I was dying to have...the ones that were so

popular and so fashionable and so NORMAL! Wrongeroo...Megatron presented me

with a large red and silver box the night before the dance. " Happy

Birthday! " she trilled. I opened the Saks gift box to find...to my

horror...a BROWN VELVET DRESS with a WHITE SILK BLOUSE. I must've tried to

look pleased, unsuccessfully, because she instantly grew defensive about the

choice...pitch and volume increasing with each syllable. " I never had a

velvet dress when I was a child and I always wanted one. I had to wear Aunt

****'s hand-me downs. This came from Saks...SAKS FIFTH AVENUE! Plenty of

girls would be thrilled to get this kind of gift. " Not plenty of fifth

grade girls in the 1980's! The night of the dance I shuffled of to the

church basement looking like (in my mind) a refugee from the " chocolate milk

comes from chocolate cows " ad campaign. God bless Nicky I. because he danced

with me anyway.

Debbie