Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City
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It was nearly a year since I had seen Siete, and she was now twenty years old. She wore a long sleeveless black and blue striped dress made of polyester—Siete was always good at finding fashionable things at low prices. She wore black flip-flops and clutched a small purse. Her hair was held up in a tight bun and she was wearing shiny turquoise and black eye makeup and bright red lipstick. She was one of the most attractive women in the room.
I had returned to Port City to attend, along with some of the Port City youth, a wedding of mutual friends. Siete sat somberly and, despite her attractiveness, with an aura of weariness beyond her years at a round table with her older sister Ashley, their mother and her boyfriend, and Ashley’s new boyfriend John. When I finally caught Siete’s eye from the far end of the room, I felt as though her face lit up with nostalgia and relief as we approached each other.
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