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Going Home

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  My parents were fine with me staying at college for summer again, but my mom insisted that I come home for a weekend and I agreed.  Now, I love my parents and it was so good to see them.  I certainly don't want them coming down here to visit me and I want them to know that I still want them to be an important part of my life.  Unfortunately, going home meant seeing my sisters Kim and Holly.  Now don't get me wrong, I love my sisters and I always have, but we are close in age and that means competition.  Also, being outnumbered I would often make comments about women just to get a rise out of them.  They are really enjoying having me under Mia and her friends' thumbs at college and I am coming back with a whole bunch of hand-me-downs as well as a few summer dresses we bought on a shopping trip. They had gotten my aunt's old wedding dress and couldn't wait to have me model it and in general they tormented me all 4 days I was home.  I am never goin...

Day Four: Black Friday, Bride in White

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  In what's definitely the most embarrassing picture I've taken yet, that is my mom's wedding dress I'm wearing. I hope you're happy girls. I couldn't get it buttoned up completely in the back, but I don't think you can tell from the front. I really thought my mom would have preserved the dress better, but it's definitely wrinkled.  The other picture is one of those dresses that Kim couldn't wear out of the house. Mia had challenged me to wear one.  Now, I'm off to go window shopping. I think I have enough decent dresses in our basement that I at least don't have to buy anymore.