text:  Literally a nudist. I could not keep clothes on her body. And can you imagine a nudist in a community where by the time you're five, you're covered head to toe as a girl? By the time you're five. By the time you're five. Years later, when she was probably in fifth grade, and the teacher told me that students were making fun of her because she came to school in sneakers and not in school shoes, and that she got ridiculed. When Miriam came home, I said, Miriam, you never told me. Like, I bought you these beautiful Gucci school shoes. You could wear those. She's like, yeah, but then I can't run. I can't play. I can't move.