Maya Angelou Writes Descriptions for 3D Printer Models on Thingiverse

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We crowded into the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the ladies fanning in their homemade dresses and the men dour with sweat in their suits. The men wore their coats despite the July and even if a man could not spare a penny for a coffee, he wore a tie around his neck. More than one necktie was silk and shined like a Japanese fish.

Even at my young age I knew it was a waste for vanity. Sister Ruth and the Reverend Taylor did not care if a man wore a tie of silk. Not to mention all of the trouble of tying a necktie. I saw my own father dispirited by tying one around his neck on more than one occasion. If only he lived to see this day, when a man or woman can select whatever pattern they want, be it 8-bit or based on sitcom characters, and build up their own necktie attached to a nylon lanyard bought separately.

Were these wonders always with us waiting to be found, like seams of god-placed gold, or did they descend from the mind of a man? I may never believe the answer.

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