Like a flawless angle of beauty and passion sent from above, she was wearing tight blue jeans and a white tank, with her silky blonde hair and her lip of ruby red like fire.

One look then I was captivated, as if she was the only one I had ever seen and could only see.

She was the one I wanted to spend my life with because aside from her flawless beauty her immaculate skin, shining and glittering , also amazed me.

She must be the angle that the god sent to help me, ?I guess , out of all the sadness and hatred.

But how dare I mention god and say it's the god who sent her to me when I am such a sinful girl who never got god's blessing and will never be blessed ?

That was in the summer of 1973 of Los Angeles, and she seemed older than 17 years old, me being an ordinary 16-year-old girl without any mercy in appearance.

Walking out of an old grocery store down Sunset in East Hollywood, she was holding a heavy paper bag.

Should I help her hold that heavy bag? Will I scare her if I do?..........

While I was thinking about whether I should help her or not, the girl got on a fast car which seemed to have been here waiting for a while and disappeared.

Then she was long gone.

I didn't even ask her for her name...she just disappeared like every passerby did.

Although there are so many bars on Sunset, I guess I am not allowed in being an underage without any cents in my pocket.

But I will have nowhere to go if I don't enter the bars..My beloved parents have sacrificed themselves in Vietnam, and I don't know anyone in Los Angeles.

And I don't have a chance to go to school.Schooling is not that I can afford.

I had been working as a waitress in a Italian restaurant in east Los Angeles, but I was expelled from that restaurant since the fubsy boss found out that I am a queer girl.

Now I am here on Sunset avenue wondering what to do, where to live.

Maybe I will have to live another night through on the street.

But I can't just live like that forever...I will have to find another job...

I walk into a Mexican restaurant called Amigo.It's not a big one, not perfectly adorned. There are more than 26 consumers eating while there is only 3 waiters serving.

"What do you want to eat today, ?beautiful lady?" A Latin boy comes to me.

"Sorry, I am not here for dinner.I am here to find out if I can get a job..I am wondering if you can tell me who the boss is, thank you so much!"

"Cool, I am the boss here.Can you speak Spanish ?We only hire bilingual here."

"Oops, I don't speak spanish, sorry. "

Okay, maybe I should work somewhere else.

The moment I get my feet out of the front door, the Latin boy comes to me again.

"Okay, we decide to let you have a try here because I think you deserve a try."

I was so happy to be given a chance to make a living again. It seems that everything will be on the right track again.