Somehow, the subject always comes up. Actually, I don’t really talk to this particular woman that often. In any case, she always manages to tell me at least once in her conversation, how disgraceful she finds young women who wear jeans every place they go.
This time, she said, it was bad enough that they wear them to funerals, now they were wearing them to church as well. Not that they were allowed to wear them to her church. But she had observed someone wearing them to a church in her neighborhood.
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