We dined at another of New York City's restaurant icons, and had a private box for the show. From the second the orchestra began to play, until the cu...rtain came down after several encores, Jennifer glowed with joy.It was worth the trip just to see the stars in that little girl's eyes. She bounced in her seat, sang along with the chorus, hummed with the orchestra, and pretended to be a Rockette when they danced. Sherrie and I continually exchanged glances as we watched Jennifer's reaction to the. It was my first day on the job and I woke up at 6:30 in the morning, excited to be out in the workforce for the first time. I took a long shower and took my time with hair and makeup. Checking my wardrobe, I pondered for the longest time, finally deciding on a monochromatic look, a black pencil skirt, slit up the back, white fitted blouse, black blazer, suspenders and black stockings, and mid-height heels. Looking myself over in the mirror, I thought, ‘Damn, girl, you look professional!’ . I moaned with frustration but they all pretended that Iwas enjoying my torment. Then, at last, Doc got a chance to feel the workhe had done on my lips. He fondled my enlarged ear lobes as I kneltbefore him and sucked him off, while the entire time he kept up a runningfantasy about me being a cheap street whore and us being in a dirty alley.By the time he was done, along with all the preceding men, I felt as if Ihad swallowed a giant milkshake made of sperm.The rest of the party was less. “America was the home of my parents and their parents.“America was the dream my great-grandparents had for my parents.”America is the dream my parents had for me.“There is not that much different about me. My great grandparents came from a land where opportunity was denied, or granted based on nothing more than your pedigree. We talk about elitism and snobbishness, but Eastern Europe was the home of more elitism, more denied opportunity and less freedom to achieve than has ever been imagined in.