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:04:05
each of us doing everything we could
to make things work.

:04:12
We were safe and happy.
:04:22
If only I could have stayed six.
:04:26
But I was blossoming.
:04:29
And during my very first dance...
:04:31
in the time it took a boy's hand...
:04:33
to go from my back to my bottom...
:04:36
it was evident that
she would have to leave her night job...

:04:39
to keep a watchful eye on me.
:04:42
Within days, she was
on her way to a job interview.

:04:46
She needed $450 from one job.
:04:50
And that meant,
after all her time in America...

:04:55
finally entering a foreign land.
:05:04
Hello?
:05:05
Yeah, hi. We're here for
the interview with Mrs. Clasky?

:05:10
Oh, great. You made it.
:05:13
Come on in. The front door's open
and we're out back. Okay?

:05:16
And call me Deborah.
:05:25
Holding out had helped though.
:05:30
She was no longer intimidated.
:05:35
Working for Anglos
now posed no problems.

:05:38
It would just be a job.
:05:41
White America beckoned.
:05:44
She stepped across the cultural divide.
:05:55
Gee whiz in heaven, are you okay?
:05:57
No. Don't worry, I'm not mad.
:05:59
I've been looking for decoration to put up
on the glass so people wouldn't walk into it.


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