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A Pink Polka Dot Dress

Jariya (Riya) Goerwitz

A pink polka dot dress.

Short helm.

Mud stains from the slides and a tear in the petticoat from getting caught in the swings.

Pink polka dot dress with a stretched neckline.

As if someone pulled on it.

Pink polka dot dress for back when pink was her favorite color.

Size 5 youth donned by a child who can barely count that high.

Pink polka dot dress and the little one that slipped into it.

Pink and red polka dot dress to the man who slipped her out of it.

 

But go ahead and ask again, “Well, what was she wearing?”

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