To Another.

  “Sure we all knew Miss Monroe.
She'd come in here late at night.
She said to me, 'Schwab's is my favorite place
in all the world, I got my start in Schwab's guess how,'
and I asked how and she said,
'Some man noticing my ass, how else?' and laughed.
She wasn't like the other big stars who you never see,
who send in servants.
She came in herself and she was always alone.
No makeup and you'd hardly know her.
She was the most alone person I ever knew….”
– a young female cashier at Schwabs,
in Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates