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Memory Cloth — Chemistry Set
I loved Mr. Wizard. I was fascinated with questions of how life came to be and what atoms were made from. I wanted to be a biochemist.
Every year from age 10-14 I asked for a chemistry set for Christmas. Every year my parents didn’t get me one- too dangerous. I’d blow up the house.
When my brother was 10 he casually mentioned it MIGHT be fun to have a chemistry set. That Christmas he got a great big red three fold one. When I snuck in his room to use it, I got yelled at. When I left for college 4 years later 75% of the bottles hadn’t even been opened.
When I showed this embroidery to my returning adult graduate student she said, “Thank God you didn’t get it!” I might have been a chemistry professor instead of her art professor.
made Labor Day 2006 
recalling Xmas 1958-62
- © 2012 Leslee Nelson
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