THE PENCIL TEST

THE PENCIL TEST

Shari L. Coxford © 1990

We've all heard of Ann Lander's pencil test: If you can hold up a pencil, you need to wear a bra.

I never could hold up a pencil. All through my teens, it was my dream that someday I'd be able to support that pencil. I kept thinking, "Maybe when I'm older..." I was well into my twenties when I finally had to accept the fact that I'd never be able to hold up that pencil.

They say that you'd better be careful what you wish for, because you just might get your wish, only it might not be quite what you had in mind.

At thirty-three, my wish finally came true. Today, I can hold up a pencil! Today, I wish I couldn't. Whoever would have thought that an under-endowed chest could rest on an ever-expanding middle-age spread in such a way as to be able to hold up a pencil!

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