Against the Odds
“The building, with its row of white columns, sat on a long stretch of brilliant green, perfectly manicured lawn, reigning like a queen over the verdant Houston landscape.
As a child living in a small two-bedroom, one-bath house in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Uvalde, Sabrina would never have dreamed she’d be attending a dinner with the cream of Houston society.
Or maybe she had always imagined herself here. From grade school on, she’d been driven to succeed. She’d been determine...d to go to college, graduate and find the kind of job that would pay enough to buy the things her parents couldn’t afford.
Uncle Walter had helped her to get through school, but mostly she had done it on her own. Tonight she was dressed in a long, strapless, sequined black gown from Neiman Marcus and a pair of black satin Jimmy Choo heels that cost nearly six hundred dollars. Rhinestone earrings dangled from her ears and the fragrance of Chanel No.MoreLess
As a child living in a small two-bedroom, one-bath house in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Uvalde, Sabrina would never have dreamed she’d be attending a dinner with the cream of Houston society.
Or maybe she had always imagined herself here. From grade school on, she’d been driven to succeed. She’d been determine...d to go to college, graduate and find the kind of job that would pay enough to buy the things her parents couldn’t afford.
Uncle Walter had helped her to get through school, but mostly she had done it on her own. Tonight she was dressed in a long, strapless, sequined black gown from Neiman Marcus and a pair of black satin Jimmy Choo heels that cost nearly six hundred dollars. Rhinestone earrings dangled from her ears and the fragrance of Chanel No.MoreLess
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