Life in New York

Jeanette was now a junior and had decided that she was going to to move to New York for her senior year. Her parents were upset with her because they thought it was unfair that they had to be stuck in West Virginia.

Jeanette made it to New York. She met her sister that and she took her to the women's hostel that she had been living. The next day she got a got at a hamburger joint. She was taking home over eighty dollars a week.

In the middle of the summer Lori had gotten them an apartment. It was way nicer and fancier than their house in Welch. Jeannette enrolled into a school where you didn't go to classes. Instead, you would sign up for internships all over the city. She singed up for a news paper called The Phoenix. She soon quit her job at the hamburger joint and became a full time reporter for the newspaper. She loved her job. Her phone was ringing off the hook and she always was busy with interviews.

I was so surprised the Jeannette actually made it to New York. She is so ambitious and i could never imagine moving and pretty much living on my own at seventeen. She is so successful already and i think she has a great future. She defiantly mad the right move. She got herself out of the hole that she was living in.

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