When Vicky D'Angelo lands her first secretarial job after high school at a prestigious engineering firm in Manhattan, she hopes only it will lead to a better life for herself and her struggling, single mother. It isn’t long, however, before she realizes the company she works for is no ordinary engineering firm, and the colleague she has fallen in love with, no ordinary young man. Both will deliver her into a brilliant, unexpected life -- but at a cost.
Based on a true story and Edward Hopper's painting Office at Night, this is a short story about growing amid great uncertainty, accepting both loss and life coming full circle with love.
After Hopper By Georgette Gouveia The dress was a giveaway. A light wool, short-sleeved, royal blue affair, it was already too warm for early spring, and it seared and itched her skin, molding her already perspired foundation garments to her flesh and tempting her mightily to scratch, which she would not do as she sat ramrod straight on the New York Central Railroad train that rattled its way from Yonkers to Grand Central Terminal. “Remember: Cool as a cucumber on the outside no matter what’s roiling the inside,” Mama always advised. She just hoped she would not be betrayed by disks of perspiration on her armpits. She had to make that ten-cent jar of cream deodorant last and last, so she used it as sparingly as possible, just as she had taken up the hem of Aunt Violet’s old blue dress a
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