Frequent hand-washing in my job as a medical technologist and the harsh¹ Alaskan weather combined to give me very dry skin. One night as I prepared for bed, I rubbed my hands with petroleum² jelly³ and covered them with a pair of old white gloves.   As I sat in bed reading a book with my gloves on, my husband finished showering and came into the room. Drying himself off, he went to the closet, selected a tie and began putting it on.   "What are you doing?" I asked.   "Well," he replied, "if you're going to be formal, so am I."   我是一名醫藥技師，頻繁的洗手以及阿拉斯加惡劣的天氣，讓我的皮膚十分干燥。一天晚上，我在休息前用凡士林膏抹了抹手，并帶上了一副舊的白手套。   我坐在床上看書，手上還戴著白手套，丈夫洗完澡進了臥室。擦干身子之后，他走到壁櫥前，選了一條領帶開始扎上。   “你這是干什么？”我問。   “噢，”他回答，“如果你想正式一點，那我只有這樣做了。”

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