Our kid’s backpack was breaking, the stitching that connects the top handle to the rest of the backpack pulling out. So my partner suggested we take it to the dry cleaners in the strip mall by our kid’s preschool. The kid and I dropped it off, and three day’s later, we came back, the kid handed the proprietor our ticket, and we received the bag. They had fixed the handle and cleaned it. It nearly glowed. Want to wear my new backpack, he said.
What if we changed it so “new” just meant “lovingly, recently cared for”?
