Sunday, October 27, 2013

A cruel surprise

Her story began with employment at age seventeen in the Mitigated Affliction Department of Hardman’s Emporium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A week later the floorwalker’s insane wife ran her out of the store with the sharp point of an unopened parasol. Life brought many cruel surprises . . .
     --From Variation West

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