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11 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Leslie...I was in Oklahoma! In high school (The play, not the state)and my mom volunteered to make dresses. She went and got 1800's dress patterns and hand sewed ruffled dresses for all the girls. For the wedding scene she made the most beautiful dress... (more)
So beautiful that the girl who played Laurie (hi @mobyjeff !) wore it for her own wedding the next year.

That's Peggy...Spend a month making a perfect wedding gown, that would have been on stage for what? Ten minutes a night?

She has always been like that.
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My mom grew up in a convent orphanage. She was 13 w/a job in the laundry until a mangle broke her finger, so they put her on the sewing machines...where she sewed herself to a nun's habit one day with an industrial sewing machine...Not fond memories for Peggy.
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But when my school did The Sound of Music, my mom sewed them 55 nuns habits. 55. They put together a team to help her but she was finished before the team ever actually met.

That is also Peggy.
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You all... guess what? I just got off the phone with my mom...

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