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...bright, fleeting moment, it worked, this fairy tale of American bigheartedness. In September Forrest King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," and his wife Marie Hancock-King opened up their home in Attleboro, Mass., to a lesbian couple with three small children and a grandmother, all of whom had fled Slidell, La., and Hurricane Katrina. The Meehan-Hoos placed their kids in school and heaped gratitude on their hosts. And King said they could stay indefinitely. TIME ran a story about the arrangement (Sept. 26, 2005), calling it a friendship "across the red-blue divide...
...Applied Arts Mini Boden corduroys and sweaters have appliqu?d details, as do wool slippers from Garnet Hill, above...
...clever way to decorate a child's room. These movable stickers are backed with low-tack adhesive and can be cut, colored in, layered and reused without damaging surfaces. They're available online at modernseed.com Applied Arts Mini Boden corduroys and sweaters have appliquéd details, as do wool slippers from Garnet Hill Riding In Style Call it the Murakami effect: strollers, like Vuitton handbags, are being fashionably customized. Dutch design company Bugaboo is introducing a line of limited-edition strollers by Dutch fashion designers. The first edition, by Bas Kosters, comes in a series...
STELLA GETS HER GROOVE AT H&M Hot on the heels of last year's sellout success with Karl Lagerfeld, Swedish retail giant H&M will introduce next week another one-off line of hip fashion items, designed this time by Stella McCartney. Get ready for drainpipe wool pants, slouchy sweaters and silk spaghetti-strap dresses...
...that bureaucrats might not be the best judges of the situation. "The government failed," says King. "The citizens have to stand up and say, 'Get out of the way. We'll take care of our own.'" And so, for the past week, King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," has been sharing his home with the Meehan-Hoo family, a lesbian couple with three children, ages 5, 7 and 9. "The adults are same sex, and I don't care," he says. "I don't care if they're purple and got horns coming out of their faces...