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i'm suzanne rust and welcome to the moth podcast on this this episode, high schools and sibling rivalries.

First up is Suzanne Ketcham Adams, who told this story at a Boston Grand Slam where the theme was

never again. Here's Suzanne live with the Moth. It's October of 1973, and I'm a freshman in high school in a small town in Pennsylvania,

and I'm sitting in my third required year of home economics class.

I have just sewed two red patch pockets onto the front of a yellow dress, but they're

upside down. Now, before I can do anything to correct this, Ms. McSparren, my teacher, comes bustling over

to inspect my work.

And instead of making a joke about how this would make it hard to hold on to my lunch money, she starts to rip apart my work in front of the whole class, criticizing my seam allowance

and my basting.

And at this humiliation, I start to cry, to which she responds,

I don't want your tears. I just want you to take some pride in your work. Well, I took pride in

the work I did, but I didn't want to learn to sew.

I didn't want to be in HOMEC class.

And I'm still fuming about this later that morning in study hall,

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