You emerge from your room, a glowing kallah meidel, poised and ready for a photoshoot

IF

you give a shadchan your résumé, she’ll ask you for a picture — just for her records. After searching through photo albums and unlabeled SD cards, you find a nice picture of yourself from last summer’s family trip to Niagara where you look natural, happy, and relaxed, and send it to the shadchan.

When you send her the picture, she’ll probably ask you for a more formal photo. You’ll wonder why her records need a formal picture while you go through your closet to find that perfect outfit, but then you realize you don’t have a dress that’s casually glamorous.

You’ll run out to Junee and buy a beautiful, casually glamorous dress you’ll probably never touch again until you need an updated shidduch picture. At home, you put it on and prepare to do your makeup.

When you open your makeup bag, you’ll notice that you’re out of your special Shabbos lipstick. So you grab your purse and run to CVS for a new tube of lipstick — in your brand-new outfit.

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