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‘Mother does excellent work ... I’m telling you that she’s the best’ |
MYRTLE BEACH — Alone in a back room, a seamstress, with hands seasoned by experience and softened by shea butter, commands her Singer.The choo-choo syncopation of the machine is the only sound breaking the silence as Iva Mae Ward sews.A sunflower-yellow blouse blemished by a burn hole has her undivided attention, and within minutes, the flawed shirt is once again fabulous.“Now this blouse is good as new,” Ward said, closely inspecting the stitches.Her 87-year-old eyes were just 14 when they began scrutinizing the work of her hands and their capacity to stitch the fabric of folks’ lives one garment at a time.
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