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Maybe it's because I belatedly saw Milk this weekend, but my favorite part of the New York Times today is this, from a Style story celebrating Jason Wu, the 26-year-old surprise designer of Michelle Obama's much-discussed inaugural gown:
Even when [Wu] was 5, growing up in Taipei, Taiwan, his parents, who operate an import-export business, recognized his creative ambitions. His mother sometimes drove him to bridal stores so he could make sketches of the gowns in the windows.
Maybe there's a world of complexity that lies beneath these sentences. I thought of Hanna's Atlantic story on the related though different topic of boys who want to be girls (XX Factor comments here and here). But I love the seeming simplicity and the love infusing it. Way to go, Mom and Dad.
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