Not many people know that during the historical period when Joan of Arc led the French in battle, there were many women fighting right along with the troops. Dorothy wanted to discover what it would have been like to be a peasant woman soldier back in the days of Joan of Arc. She could either give herself fleas, scurvy, various bug bites, lousy food, consider knocking out several teeth, learn how to swing a sword...or she could just wear the steel helmet, which weighs somewhere around nine pounds.
She chose the helmet over all the other fun peasant stuff, and claimed it wasn't any worse than the helmet she wore as a baton tosser in the Aiken High School Band. She kept walking around bumping into things and looking like someone who belonged on the little yellow school bus.
It took me a week to get her to take the helmet off and another week to uncross her eyes. I'm having trouble understanding this sudden compulsion to wear stuff on her head.
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