GRGR(19): August at Zwölfkinder

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 25 02:28:19 CST 2000


Howdy

--- Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble grokking the idea that the girls Weissman uses to
> keep
> Pökler on board are inmates from Dora -- I'm trying to picture the
> transaction in my head

What I have trouble picturing is how a Dora worker would be anything
more on his/her bones than skin and sinew.  Perhaps the girls would be
taken under for a look attheir prospects, and then offered an
alternative by which they might avoid starvation and death, for a
while, maybe purchase life for a loved-one as well.  

Mark
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