[stylist] DBG 7 (completely new chapter)

[Barbara Hammel]

You are right.  It's probably suspending reality a bit too much to assume 
that on top of all these people being disabled that their physical 
appearances could be a bit off.  I didn't even think twice about it when I 
read it.
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] DBG 7 (completely new chapter)

> In any situation there are situations like your niece and nephew.  I'm not 
> going into my grandchildren.  As Lori can tell you once I get started I 
> don't stop.  Yes, there are exceptions, but for the most part people can 
> tell the difference between boys and girls.  The closer the child gets to 
> puberty, the more they act like the gender they are born into.  My boys 
> played with dolls when they were little and my daughters played with cars 
> and trucks.  They are all married and the boys are  definitely men and the 
> girls women.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] DBG 7 (completely new chapter)
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>
>> Okay, I hate to argue because for the most part you are right.  However, 
>> I have a sibling set of niece and nephew and the boy is dainty-built and 
>> the girl is built like a mack truck.
>> Barbara
>>
>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>
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>> From: "Judith Bron" <jbron at optonline.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:15 PM
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>>> Helene, when I gave birth to my third, a nine pound boy, a friend of 
>>> mine was my roommate in the hospital for the last night of my hospital 
>>> stay. In the morning the nurses brought the babies and left them in 
>>> their transparent basinets at the foot of our beds.  I pointed out to my 
>>> friend, "Take a look at these kids.  Your daughter is lying there so 
>>> dainty with her legs daintily crossed with her fragile features.  My son 
>>> is laying there with his legs spread like a big lug."  Of course I loved 
>>> my son and still love him all these years later.  However, no one could 
>>> have convinced me that boys and girls are inherently the same.  I have 
>>> nine year old grandchildren and had 9 year old children.  I don't know 
>>> who told you that boys and girls are the same until they are nine, but 
>>> they couldn't be more wrong.  There are differences starting from birth. 
>>> Judith
>>>
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