The unexpected childhood activity that predicted my career path

The thing that I used to role-play became how I’ve made my living.

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“And a cascade of lace here, here, and here.” I thwacked my pen against the notepad to emphasize each word while my cousin nodded vigorously. At 8 and 10, we carefully reviewed our wedding dress designs as if our big days were just moments away. While our parents prepped dinner, we rehearsed our grand bridal entry in painstaking detail.

I’m probably not the only person who had this fantasy when I was little, but what I didn’t realize was just how that........

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