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Meg Rowe
Portland, Oregon
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From junior high through high school and my first two summers home from college, I spent most of the time I wasn't in school working in my parents' hardware store. At the store I wore plaid polyester pants and very thin, short-sleeved "uniform" shirts that always made me look even skinnier than I was, and were a major source of insecurity when working at the store. The greatest skills I developed working at the store were the ability to figure out how use tools and build or fix pretty much anything (Both masculine skills in most people's eyes.) and how to deal with difficult people.
--Excerpt from Paul Arensmeyer's life story
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