On the first day when reporting to work for a new job at a printing company, I saw her. Sitting in a corner of a large room full of paper stacks, printers and all of printing stuff, she looked quiet, calm, and a little lonely from my first look. "Yes, I' m feeling a bit of loneliness here. Perhaps, I'm the only one female here among other males in this job type." Later she said.
"Elizabeth Taylor is my name." She answered when I asked. "I don't know exactly. But I know that the famous actress Liz Taylor has been my mother's idol since she was young." She smiled mildly. It seemed she didn't accept her mother's idea in assuming her daughter someday would be beautiful and talented like the famous actress. But really what it is. Taylor, my co-worker, has large beautiful eyes, clear and aqua-colored, which remind me of the image of a serene sea in summer looking from a hill in my country out of my past days. Her eyes, at last, look somewhat like those of the actress people admire.
She had a BA degree in German and was a teacher even though she's just 24 years old. One day she confessed to me about her age. She told me she is a Snake in oriental horoscope and a Leo. She laughed "Oh, really!" and showed excitement when I told her about characters of a Snake. I pretended I was a fortune-teller then. She knew that I wasn't but she was very happy to hear those things. But one thing I was certain. She didn't know that my wife is a Snake, too!
"I might go to Germany where I have learned before, and I will find a job and live there for the rest of my life, probably because I like Europe; besides, people there live and behave to each other with more intimacy and warm feelings than it is here." Quietly I sighed. In my mind, I hope she would obtain what she had in her mind. And right at the time I'm writing down these words, I still visualize her faintly humming a song from Nina Simone, her favorite jazz vocalist. Her voice faded out along with an image of a lonely Tay
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