I then learned I was with child. On the way home my mother and I were planning out a letter to Johnny when on our veranda there were two men. They wer... dressed like the guys I saw on the newsreels at the picture show so I assumed they were from the army. They addressed themselves as Generals Williamson and Oswalt of the United States Army. They were asking which one of us was Dorothy Jo Epstein. I introduced myself to the General and he asked if he could come inside. I obliged and allowed him. The third floor also boasts it’s own private outside entrance, at the back of the structure that ensures the anonymity and privacy of the few intimate callers to grace her quarters.Sarah finds her eyes glancing up in pride, mentally reviewing the young women that grace her house. She is proud of her girls, handpicked for their looks, their grace and their polish, each as individual as she herself and proud of it. Then a wry grin wreathes her face at one of the newer arrivals, a buxom, spirited. I walked in and set my book bag down in the office listening for the sound of Grace’s voice. Nothing. I walked into the shop and found it also strangely quiet. Ever since my dad had begun teaching Gabriel the in’s and out’s of car repair he’d barely left the shop. But the familiar metallic and electric sounds were missing and so were Gabriel and Grace. I noticed the door on the other side of the shop was ajar. It opened up to the fenced-in back of the shop and the small patch of forest between. She called her work to tell them she couldn't make it only to be told notto come in at all. They had been bought out and everyone was laid offeffective immediately. She had to go by to get her severance, but thatwas all they could do.The tiny, dark, messy house was not enough to contain her. She couldn'timagine any greater disaster than meeting that genie, and was consideringmore drastic measures. She was tempted to give up. Forever.Then there was a knock at the door.It was Tiffany.Somehow she.