As soon as you could, ina got yourself a job. By the age of 13 she was cleaning books and waxing floors at her high school. She also had to work all summer long for minimum wage so that she could buy herself things like brand name shoes or levi jeans. You've said your sexuality was shaped by the victorian eraerati classic the pearl. It is a convilation of serialized poor stories. And you stole it from your mum, when you were a tea nager. I stole the godfather and the crazy ladies from my parents. But now i treasure them more than anything else.