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It hadn't been this way in college, or in nurses' training ; ;

it wasn't this way in the hospital at San Diego.

Everybody had accepted her for what she was -- a very charming girl.

Nobody had addressed her in broken English at any of those places, nobody had suggested that she wasn't American.

There are Spanish girls who look like Tommy Momoyama, brunettes with a Moorish hint of the Orient in their faces ; ;

there are beauties from the Balkan states who are similarly endowed, and -- back in the blessed United States -- they were regarded simply as pretty women.

Now, having been sent halfway around the world on a job she had not asked for, Tommy was being humiliated at every turn.