The Move to New York

I was accepted at Pratt Phoenix school in Manhattan within two days of being offered a job at United Airlines in Rockleigh, New Jersey. My marriage was over, I needed to move on. Bob did try to get me to refuse the job with United and the admittance to Pratt to go to Chicago with him on a six month's trial run of our marriage. He hadn't been with me in Honolulu for a year so I could not follow him to Chicago.
Leaving Hawaii and starting over again at 34yrs was the hardest thing I have done. Pratt was good, I studied color theory and advanced water color. Only problem was that my homework time was at night, in the morning my water colors looked totally different in daylight. Lesson number one in color; north light.
At United airlines I worked from 5p-1am. Colleagues Norene, David, and Gary who lived in the same apartment building sipped wine and watched Dr Welby and Mary Tyler Moore in the middle of the night after our shift was done.
I had to be at school by 8am for class. Took a bus across the George Washington bridge and then the subway to Lexington and Park. Walked on the sidewalk to school smelling the curry wafting from the large burlap bags in open doorways. I hated New York.
Then I met George the brother of Susan from Hawaii.