An Affair that Might Just Ruin Her Life

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e lost more than I ever thou

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innings. I’m really not t

girl.’ I am 24, after all, and, wel

es, they had some sort of ritual that women go through where you know you’re a woma

rried or having a baby probably qualifies. Although I’ve

t that happened for me when I was 17, and I sure as hell didn’t feel like a woman wit

de me feel like a woman. Ent

et to that

minor, had a horrible time getting a job after college, finally moved out to Los Angeles because my best friend Anh got hired at a

t was a job, I had my foot in the door, and – Los Angele

er saw the glamorous side of it

Land of movie stars, the silver screen,

on

geographic location you’ll find on Google Maps? All the film studios and movie stars bolted over 50 year

street from a tattoo parlor and a s

ntroduction to real

ails to you, but I guess I brin

sion of fantasy and reality began to bl

. (And if you want some extra help in the boob department, the plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills will gladly sell it to you.) Sometimes it feels like eve

o say, sometimes even a b

t, I’m the blind squ

because I’m gorgeous. I’m not. In L

’m cutting off speculation at 15). I’m not even in the same zip code (okay, not even the same state) as

I like my cheekbones. I have nice calves, and they look even

beg to differ after you’ve spent enough time

ppened because I look like a

ll not sure h

on Consulting, and of course,

e my

few big cities around the globe – LA, New York, London, Tokyo. But

’ you ask. ‘What

and don’t care, skip dow

rts’ to come in and tell them how to fix said problems. Efficiency problems, human

ed by talking to lower-level employees, or by trusting good people in the

ed as a temp secretary. I couldn’t even make the cut t

k to the do

on how much to offer when they’re hiring high-level executives – CEO’s,

nior VP who makes at least a half million a year, who advises companies on whether they should offer 1

m a littl

ce is a pigsty. He is constantly coming up with a humongous list of time-consuming demands that he adds to hourly. He makes a hundred last-minute changes on any big project we send out, which means that I’m constantly begging the copy room guys to

until 6PM Friday night, which he needs corrected and email

et paid over

r instead of $10. (Don’t forget,

ecause I’m exhausted by the time I wrap up

om home on the weekends. I thi

use if Klaus weren’t such a je