Start: I always took their work for gran...

Start: I always took their work for granted, to be simple and unimportant. I was not proud to be working there at the beginning. I was only glad to know that because I was educated, I wasn’t going to end up like them. I was going to be better than them. And I wanted to show them how much smarter and liberated I was.

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End: So I went to New York and was a starving writer for some time before I went to New York University. When I came back the plans for making the boutique were no longer a dream, but a reality. (ANA picks up a beautiful designer jacket and puts it on.) Because I now wear original designs from Estela Garcia’s boutique, “Real Women Have Curves.”

Lopez, Josefina, Real Women Have Curves, Dramatic Publishing, Act 2, Scene 4.

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