Step 1: After 30 minutes on the train, halfway to work, notice you have a hole in your shirt. 
Step 2: Spend the rest of the train ride feeling stupid and holding your hand over your arm, which probably doesn't help.
Step 3: Spend $5 on an overpriced needle and thread at Duane Reade.
Step 4: Arrive at work and find a sweater in your desk drawer.
Step 5: Put on sweater.
Step 6: Promptly forget about plans to mend shirt.
Step 7: Work all day. Send emails. Talk to clients. Look at shoes online while on hold with the US Immigration office.
Step 8: Find yourself sitting at your desk at 6:25 pm, eating grapes from a Ziploc bag and Googling cures for lower back pain.
Step 9: Look in your bag for your cell phone; find needle and thread.
Step 10: Cry.
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Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
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