"I would love to live in some weird-ass
small town," Denise says, "but I don't have any marketable skills. You
know, people clean their own houses in weird-ass small towns. And I
don't carve burls, you know, whatever, those burl tables, bears and stuff.
I don't do that. So I'm kind of screwed in the small weird-ass towns.
And I don't make methamphetamines either."
- Denise, a 36-year-old native of Chicago's northern suburbs
King Kaufman,
$8.25 an hour in a million-dollar world,
Salon.