Audiobook Demo-Jazz
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (US South)Transcript
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such restless nights make them sleep late, and Violet has to hurry to get a meal prepared before getting ready for her round of heads, having a knack for it but no supervised training and therefore no license to do it. Violet can Onley charge 25 or 50 cents anyway. But since that business at Dorcas is funeral, many of her regular customers have found reasons to do their own hair or have a daughter heat up the irons. Violet and Joel Trace didn't used to need that hairdressing pocket change. But now that Joe is skipping work days, violent carries her tools and her trade more and more into the overheated apartments of women who wake in the afternoon, pour gin in their tea and don't care what she has done. These women always need their hair done, and sometimes pity darkens their shiny eyes, and they tip her, Ah, whole dollar. You need to eat something, one says to her. Don't you want to be bigger than your curling iron? Shut your mouth, says Violet. I mean it, says the woman. She is still sleepy and rest her cheek in her left hand while holding her ear with the right men. Where you down toe a sharp piece of gristle of you Let them women answers Violet women wear me down. No man ever warm me down, son. Nothing. It's these little hungry girls acting like women. Not consent with boys their own age. No. They want somebody old enough to be their father switching around with the lipstick, See through stockings, dresses up there. You know what? That's my dear girl. You gonna press it too? Sorry. I'm sorry. Really, really sorry. And Violet stops toe, blow her nose and block tears with the back of her hand.