That that day, Cassandra blocked Lily on social media. Later, Mark apologised over the phone for his wife\u2019s actions, but the harm had already been done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next to a photo of my mother teaching me to sew when I was eight years old, I framed Lily\u2019s prom photo and displayed it in our hallway. When I see both images every morning before I leave for work, I am reminded that some things are not purchaseable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In three months, Lily will begin college. \u201cThe best things in life are made with love, not money!\u201d <\/strong>she told me, which is why she is bringing the garment with her\u2014not for parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And me? I\u2019m considering picking up sewing once more. It turns out that the value of making something beautiful by hand is more than any price tag could possibly convey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because love is not something that can be bought. One meticulous thread at a time, you piece it together until it fits precisely around the individuals who are most important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That that day, Cassandra blocked Lily on social media. Later, Mark apologised over the phone for his wife\u2019s actions, but the harm had already been done. Next… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}