Dear Rita,
This morning, as I put on my everyday clothes, I thought about how there are no more occasions. I mean that there is nowhere to go to, nobody to visit, nothing to ‘dress up’ for. I miss it. Could you put on a dress and some red lipstick and take a walk to my favourite cafe there (the one on the corner)?
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Dear Hannah,
Today you wore a dress:
Just before putting on the lipstick, you hesitate. Perhaps because I seldom wear it and also it doesn’t feel totally appropriate to go outside dressed up in these times. Anyway, you go ahead and do it. You leave the house in a floaty, yellow dress with red lipstick (and you even took care of your hair; you wear it down instead of in a bun). You notice that your way of walking is different to yesterday. Slowly you start to like it. Near the cafe on the corner, you lean against a tree. The cafe looks like it’s in hibernation.
You see no one there and you suspect no one sees you.
I don’t think you have any regrets and I believe you enjoyed feeling the soft and loose fabric of the dress on your bare legs while walking.