My Fiancée Forced My Little Daughter to Polish Her Shoes—Then I Destroyed Her Entire Closet.
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Chapter 17 / 27
Chapter 17 - ELEANOR’S JOB
At six, Lila asked:
“Was Mommy servant?”
The word found its way back.
Children store poison carefully.
I answered:
“No.”
“What she do?”
I explained costume conservation badly.
“She helped take care of old clothes and fashion objects so they didn’t get ruined.”
“Like doctor?”
“For dresses.”
She loved that.
Then:
“Did she polish shoes?”
“Sometimes as part of conservation, probably. Carefully.”
“On knees?”
“Maybe sometimes people kneel to reach things.”
“But servant?”
“No.”
Then I corrected myself.
“And there is nothing wrong with being a servant or housekeeper either. The wrong thing was Camilla saying somebody’s job decides whether their child belongs beneath another person.”
Lila thought.
“Marie housekeeper.”
“Yes.”
“Marie bossy.”
May you like
Extremely.
Problem solved.
