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davidw on Dec 19, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire

> By 13, he was sewing prom dresses for the girls in his town.

Those have to be quinceanera dresses, right?

dieselgate on Dec 19, 2023 [–]

What a way to put someone into a box

Edit: maybe they were but they don't "have" to be

davidw on Dec 19, 2023 | [–]

A village in Mexico in 1946 seems a lot more likely to have a market for quinceanera dresses than prom dresses.

"Have to" is a figure of speech in conversational English.

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