Article: A Gathering of Supplies

There is a point at which a girl's features gather together to resemble a woman's, and it becomes clear whether the girl will grow up to look like her mom. The girl at Staples had reached that point and the answer was: yes. At 13 or so, she was not so much a carbon copy as a thinner, barer-limbed version of her mother. Her eyebrows were plucked and her lips glossed to the point of seeming laminated, but the resemblance was there in the egglike shape of their foreheads, the similarity of their height, the mutually irritated look on their faces.

They were arguing over pens. "This one says fine tip!" the woman said, looking at a pack of markers the girl had procured and rejecting it as not ...

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