THE SEAMSTRESS OF SEATTLE
“My name is Angie,” she says. “My preferred pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her’. Yes, that’s right, people – welcome to Seattle!”
I’ve only been in town for a couple of hours and I can already tell this is my kind of place. Your typical Seattleite (as they’re called) is an eco-conscious atheist and heavy consumer of coffee who votes Democrat and helped make US history by electing an openly gay black woman, Sherry D. Harris, to public office – a seat on its city council – in 1991. Plastic shopping bags were banned here years ago. In 2014, a local ordinance was passed enforcing staged increases to the minimum wage, which will soon be the highest in the country. And when the US
