Chapter Two
Down and Dirty
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
– Albert Einstein.
A fire bell woke us up the next morning. Maggie and I jumped up, both of us sure the building was in flames. After a moment, Keri’s voice came over an intercom telling us to come out for breakfast. We filed out into the center of the room where our Matron stood waiting for us. She was in some sort of shimmering green dressing gown, arms folded across her ample breasts.
“No, no, no, no,” she said as she looked us all over. “You cannot come to breakfast looking like that. T-shirts, tracksuits, lingerie, blue jeans and sweaters? No! You are women and you have a duty to look properly feminine. You al
