Empty Mess

Empty Mess

POCKETS

And Finding The Right Bag

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Stephanie Mason-Teague
May 21, 2022
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“This box is huge!” I thought when I saw it sitting at our front door. This was in the days before Amazon, before it was normal to have a large box delivered to the door.

Inside was my very first real briefcase, for my very first real job. Not my first job . . . I’d been working since I was thirteen. My first job was selling newspaper subscriptions door …

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