” The brown-haired lady sat back on the sofa and allowed Amy Corcoran to stand up.Across from her, Jennifer helped Abby to her feet before the retir...d Reformatory Principal stood up and ironed the creases from her white blouse and readjusted her knee-length black skirt, which was creased beyond help by this point. Abby and Amy did as they had been instructed and were soon bent over, red bottoms on show.Katherine stood up and picked the two, large, size eleven slippers from the coffee table. She. When i was about to leave for the fields mom called behind and said “beta main dopahar ka khana le ke aaongi”. I said “thaik hai mummy par dair mat karna”. I then went to the fields that was a really hot day. Our farmhouse is quite big and spread over a vast area. As father had gone out of town all laborers were also on leave and whole area was deserted. I went to the field which was a small plot of land in the middle of our farm and was surrounded from all sides with tall crop of bajra. I. I was filthy dirty and it was gross. But I gotta admit, after I started working there, the store took on a new symmetry. It looked cleaner, tidier, brighter and airy. Customers would comment on how easier it was to find groceries. This of course impressed Alfred.I start to pull down the next section of the same aisle and while I’m taking down canned beans at the second shelf from the top I find an old yellowed cellophane package of nude pantyhose with reinforced toe from sometime in the 60’s. Nan was responsible.Nan had a really good job, because she needed to feel like she was "contributing to the greater good."Nan didn't need to work.Nan was old money.Mom really liked the old money part. Mom was a "climber."Jo is the bride I got.Jo is "plain."Jo is ... east Kentucky hill folk, in Child Protective Services, living with her Uncle, cursed with unusual siblings, the daughter of a drunk Baptist preacher, short and still in high school. Jo is poor, flat-chested, and broken.She is broken.