Ashley M. Jones<\/p>\n
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spin\u2022ster<\/p>\n
noun \\\u2019spin(t)- st\u0259r\\<\/p>\n
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1. a woman whose occupation is to spin<\/p>\n
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I am caught in a revolving door. This is unlike the princess at the wheel, waiting for Rumplestilskin\u2019s tinny<\/p>\n
laugh and pecking eyes. These days just keep seeping out of the calendar\u2019s mouth like phlegm. I have not<\/p>\n
felt the bristle of moustache hair in years. I would spin it into the finest cloth.<\/p>\n
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2. \u00a0archaic\u00a0:<\/b>\u00a0an unmarried woman of gentle family<\/p>\n
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My mother got married when she was twenty-seven. I am twenty-two. She met my father in college\u2014that\u2019s<\/p>\n
how it\u2019s done. That\u2019s when nice young boys and nice young girls converge. In Alabama, the least you can<\/p>\n
do is meet a nice co-ed when you\u2019re swimming knee-deep in them. In Alabama, marriage is the next step<\/p>\n
high school, college, marriage. Then career. If career. Then kids. Always kids.<\/p>\n
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3.\u00a0 a woman who seems unlikely to marry<\/p>\n
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When I was ten, I chose the boy with the unibrow who wore a pleather jacket in the springtime. I didn\u2019t <\/p>\n
wear lip gloss because it felt like vap-o-rub. I didn\u2019t wear skirts because my legs were too skinny. He <\/p>\n
walked with me, let his arm touch mine, let his eyebrow ripple with intrigue when I walked his way. This <\/p>\n
was it.<\/p>\n
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But no boy likes to be put in a corner. No boy likes to be owned.<\/p>\n
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He said he hated me and took another girl to the dance the next week. I chose the wrong door. Instead of<\/p>\n
stepping through to the other side, I revolve forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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