I remember being that girl, that girl with an impossible, impractical dream and no idea how to make it happen; and I hear something of that girl in her voice – for her dream though completely different from mine is no less impractical. But she has the talent, and like me, she’s going for hers – seeking out and seizing opportunities, trying to make the right moves, the right contacts. And too soon she’s come up against a truth every young girl must face – know your line.
What will you do to get to your dream? Anything, of course. Well, would you …steal, lie, lie up under a man … and when you start to break it down to specifics you come up against the line.
Because if a young girl chasing a dream reaches out to a man in power for opportunity that turns in to an I’m not really trying to help…
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