The throughline between my mother and me is more than as parent and child. It is also the ties between how our identities were transformed by being menopausal people.
The author with her brother, Kevin, and mother, Nancy, in Sandwich, Mass, 1981. (Courtesy)
One year, when I was 9 or 10 years old, I convinced my brother to pool our money so we could buy our mother a truly stellar Mother’s Day gift. Our dad took us, as he usually did before Mother’s Day, to a store at our local mall called Cherry, Webb & Touraine, or CWT for short. This was, in our opinion, the fanciest store in our neck of Southern New Hampshire and thus the perfect place to shop for special occasions for my mom.
Like the girl on a mission that I was, I led my dad and brother directly to the CWT makeup counter, where bright lights and glass cases displayed rows of slickly packaged eye shadows, blushes, mascaras and, what I was looking for, perfumes. Or rather, one perfume in particular: Estée Lauder’s White Linen.
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Talc Supplier Liable For Teacher s Mesothelioma, Jury Told
Law360 (April 20, 2021, 10:53 PM EDT) A retired schoolteacher living with terminal malignant mesothelioma went to trial Tuesday against a former talc supplier she said had sold asbestos-containing talcum powders to some of her favorite personal care brands, including Chanel and Johnson & Johnson.
Longtime California teacher Linda Zimmerman began an in-person trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court against talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels Inc., which Zimmerman s lawyer told a jury supplied talc to numerous brands.
Zimmerman used Johnson s baby powder from 1954 to 2018, a brand called Jean Naté from 1956 to 1992, Avon Unforgettable from 1964 to the 1980s, and Chanel No. 5.