Parfois 2025-09-12T20:53:56Z
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Rain lashed against my apartment windows like a thousand tiny drummers, the sound mocking my frantic pacing. Tomorrow was the biggest pitch meeting of my career—a chance to lead a luxury boutique project—and my wardrobe had betrayed me. Every suit felt like a wrinkled relic from my intern days. That creeping dread started in my fingertips, cold and clammy, before spreading up my arms. I was drowning in fabric and failure.
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That dreaded text notification vibrated through my dinner plate at 7:03 PM – "Surprise party in 45 minutes!" My stomach dropped like a stone. My closet doors swung open to reveal a wasteland of last-season's mistakes and stained basics. Every hanger seemed to mock me with memories of fashion failures, that polka dot disaster from Jenny's wedding still haunting the back rack. Sweat prickled my neck as I tore through fabric mountains, panic rising like bile. How do women in movies always have perf