Isabella P

Alterations

Rachel 2005: 53" (height), 25.2" (right arm), 25" (left arm), 24" (waist), 26.5" (chest) Rachel ran her fingers across the blue arches of her mother’s handwriting, tracing the indents each loop made on the page. She pictured her lanky, fifth-grade self with one arm outstretched as her mother extended a tape measure from fingertip to shoulder with a ballpoint pen balanced between her lips. Her mother’s right thumb and forefinger would press into the nearest tick mark while she let the other end of the white plastic float down to write out the measurement.