There were times I’d go a few months counting flowers on the walls, but I did have my standards. The place I was working at was really interesting. ...I’d been there a couple times before and it was great. The company was based in Dublin, but had a sales and support office in London. They only had about twenty people based there so they didn’t want a huge amount of space. They had found an old hotel that had been part of a chain. When the chain was bought out the new owners didn’t want this. The walk was two hours at a good speed. My foot troubled me, but I used Grandpa’s cane and that prevented it from getting worse. I left an hour after sunrise. I reached Danlick an hour before noon. At that pace I just might return before sundown. I had to hurry.After reaching the square, my hurry had evaporated. So much had changed. There were no men, no whole men, at least. Veterans begged, shaking their stumps at people passing them. I gave a dollar’s worth of pennies and nickels. There were. I noticed that someone had also made sticky buns and the cake layers were baked and cooling. This was starting to look like a real feast. We helped ourselves to the sticky buns. The beep on the alarm system warned me the front door just opened. Mom and Dad had arrived. I rushed to help them unload and Rudy followed me out. ‘Hey Mom, Happy Thanksgiving!’ We hugged and kissed around the large plastic bowl she was carrying. ‘Here, let me take this. Mom, this is Rudy. Rudy this is Sarah.’ ‘It’s. "She thought for a few seconds and went on, "And then, there's how you feel about yourself. After a while, you realize you're just being used and objectified. One day you wake up, and all your friends are in the business, and they're all feeling the same way, and they find solace in drugs and booze, and then a couple contract AIDS, and a couple die of ODs. It's a vicious circle. The older girls start to take on clients instead of appear in films – the prostitutes, I mean."Claire suddenly.