Salutations, dear reader. My name is Gertrude Finkelstein and I am a woman with a rather important story to share with you. I was born in the City of Woodward, Oklahoma, in 1977, to a Jewish American family of German and Polish descent. In the summer of 1995 I moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to study at Northeastern University. I earned a Master's degree in business administration, and spent the next two decades working for Grant & Cantwell, one of the largest companies in all of New England.
As luck would have it, business and romance awaited me in the City of Boston, crown jewel of New England. I busied myself with work the moment I entered the corporate world. I met a tall, handsome man named George Beckford in the summer of 1999 and we got married in 2003. We divorced in 2009, a few months after I caught George in bed with another man. That man was none other than Dylan Rhodes, a family friend of ours, if you can believe that.
I consider myself a fairly open-minded woman and I would have accepted George had he disclosed to me that he swung both ways but he chose to cheat on me instead. I don't think there's anything wrong with male bisexuality or homosexuality. After living in Boston for ages, I consider myself fairly liberal and a major supporter of same-sex marriage rights and GLBT families. Hell, I'm one of those women who enjoys watching gay male porn. The reason why I left George is because he cheated on me. I simply cannot abide a liar, ladies and gentlemen. Simply not how I was raised.
In the winter of 2010, I got let go when a company called Tiburon Enterprises acquired Grant & Cantwell, and decided that they needed a fresh crop of executives. Apparently, as a tall and large, soon-to-be middle-aged white woman, I wasn't what they were looking for. All the incoming executives were young, male for the most part, and racially diverse. After searching for work in places like Boston, Hartford and beyond, I packed my bags and decided to return to my hometown of Woodward, Oklahoma. A place I hadn't set foot in for more than two decades. More than twenty years ago I left rural Oklahoma behind and didn't want to get back. Sadly, fate had other plans.
I returned home, and moved into the house that my parents, long since dead, left for me. The only place that would hire me was the Saint Catherine Library, which serves pretty much all of Woodward and a few of the neighboring towns. The place is run by Jack Stanwood, the guy I went to the Senior Prom with in 1988. He's married to Kimberly Prescott, the tall blonde bitch whose guts I absolutely hated in high school. Seeing the two of them together sure brought back some memories. I didn't mind seeing my first love with my former enemy, though. I moved on since then. I guess time truly does heal.