Friends made handicrafts throughout their childrearing years. She had to relearn skills.
Home economics was her least favourite subject in junior high. If it weren’t for her mother’s expert help, she would’ve failed the course.
No sense visiting the past, she realized. A deadline must be met. She cut out pieces of fabric according to the pattern a friend had lent and put them together using a sewing machine.
At the ballet school’s production of ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ her daughter danced splendidly as a rabbit.
No one remarked on the forgotten tail.