Article: 400 aprons in her collection.

Byline: John Tanasychuk

Seven years ago, EllynAnne Geisel bought her first apron.

"Up until 1999," she says, "I just wiped my hands on my clothes like everyone else."

But with her youngest child off to college, the full-time homemaker decided to pursue her long-delayed writing career. Her first story would be about aprons _ "the piece of clothing that symbolized what I'd done for 24 years of my life."

Geisel was ironing an apron she'd found at a thrift store when "this surge of something" flew out of the garment.

"I replicated her activities," says Geisel, 58, of the women she imagined wore the apron. "She used to wash this ...

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