Classy: How Dita Survived a Long Time

Dida lives on the Upper East Side, much closer to Trinity than her old home in the Bronx. "I make almost two and a half times as much as my dad was making when he was raising a family of six," she says. For a long time, I wanted to do what Dita has done, to walk into a place where I didn't belong and thrive, Jonathan Minhevar writes.