'Notime for lip gloss and I think you should get used to applyinglipstick,' she said. 'Ill do it for now but take this with you and re-apply it at som... point during your time there.' she did so, painted mynails, stuck some earrings on me and then I was done.'There we are! Now get your blazer and shoes on and off we go!''What about the jumper?' I asked. I wanted to wear the completeuniform.'Nah, too baggy and unflattering,' Natalie said. 'Most girls don't wearone, or they wear a smaller one than. ’ She added. Ronnie sat waiting, letting her talk. She sat there thinking for a long time. ‘You want to know, don’t you?’ ‘Yes.’ He said quietly. Sylvia took a deep breath. ‘All right. I moped around for a month or so, then I found a job as a book keeper in an office building. One of the salesmen named Harmon there was really nice to me, he kept asking me out and finally after a few months I went. We had dinner and some drinks and danced, that night we ended up at my apartment and we…did it.’. Back in my room. I didn’t pack.”I thankfully touched my hand to her head for balance as she eased my foot into the correct opening. With the agility of an ox, I managed it on the second try.“At last count, they’re sixteen thousand commercial radio transmitters, give or take, in the northern hemisphere,” Jennifer noted as she fiddled with a bank of switches and meters.“Come on, baby, you can do it,” she whispered and patted the Coast Guard gray metal case housing the vintage relic from the. "I've been fired," John answered.His voice was monotone. He sat down in his chair and began to open the drawers in his desk, taking out his things and putting them in a plastic bag."Daniel has been fired, too," he continued."What!" Carl said. "Come on. You must be joking. What are you talking about? Fired?"Everything about John told me that it was no joke. It was unreal. They couldn't fire John or Daniel. Where would they go to get a new job? This was the only factory in our little town; no.