morning night now"I have seen myself die in dreams," he said.morning night now
The boy was maybe nine or ten. His left shoe was untied and his coat wasn't zipped up completely. His mother was bent over, buckling his sister's winter boots. He repeated himself louder, "I have seen myself die in dreams." His eyes sweeped the emptying theater lobby, they caught mine. He said it for a final time, and this time it was only for me. Quietly and persistently, as I passed him, our eyes still locked, this boy with mocha-colored eyes said, "I have seen myself die in dreams, but I have also seen myself reborn."
I wanted to stop, or I wanted him to stop. As I left
As ye sew, so shall ye reapHetty Pappas’ nimble fingers have mended and altered threads worn by hundreds of Fargo-area customers for four decades.As ye sew, so shall ye reap
On Thursday, Pappas will close Ferdinand’s Tailor Shop, a downtown Fargo institution at 609 1st Ave. N.
Pappas has been sewing since age 4, when her mother introduced her to her first sewing machine.
“Before you know it, it’s already been 40 years,” Pappas said. “And that’s only in Fargo. Before that, I had a shop in Kansas City for 20 years.”
The 83-year-old seamstress can recall the first time she picked up a needle and thread almost 80 years ago in her Warsaw, N.D., home
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