We had all won a fashion magazine contest, by writingessays and stories and poems and fashion blurbs, and as prizesthey gave us jobs in New York for a month, expenses paid, andpiles and piles of free bonuses, like ballet tickets and passesto fashion shows and hair stylings at a famous expensivesalon and chances to meet successful people in the field of ourdesire and advice about what to do with our particularcomplexions.