Everyone wants to know why I love shopping so much; I'm not sure really because it was always a pretty humiliating experience since most clothes I liked were too small, and people never tired of telling me that. My mother constantly searched for things with elastic waists that didn't look like they should be worn by a 50 year old spinster! (Does anyone even use that term any more? I guess it's really sexist, but remember I was experiencing all this before the world became politically correct!) We hit the jackpot when we discovered that the local department store (Zeiman's on Orange Street in Newark) began carrying chubette sizes. What a wonderful introduction for me when Merv yelled to the back of the store, "Ceil, we got a chubette coming back!"
Regardless of the insulting remarks, I just loved to shop, it made the world seem to have so many possibilities; of course most of them didn't work out, but it just made my determination to find something that fit even stronger, and I soon discovered that clothes were not the only thing to buy; there were: shoes, pocketbooks, knick-knacks, and jewelry--beautiful jewelry! I had found my life's passion!!!
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