black-and-yellow-striped

Updated: June 1, 2025

I played around it with dolls made of ears of corn. I braided their soft fine silk for hair, and gave them blankets as various as the scraps I found in my mother's workbag. There was a little stranger with a black-and-yellow-striped coat that used to come to the drying corn.

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