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Looking Good
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine
By Corrie Lopez
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~William Arthur Ward
It was “Hairdo Day.” As a teacher and a mom, these kinds of days are big doings. I don’t get out a lot, so I had big plans: hairdo, Home Depot, Dollar Tree and Walmart. It was going to be a leisurely day without kids.
I chose decent clothes, not my typical sweats and sweatshirt, as I would actually be seeing humans above the age of seventeen. I chose a nice blue shirt and white shorts because I had done a spray tan, and I was actually feeling like showing my forty-five-year-old legs in public. I was living on the edge, but I threw caution to the wind.
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