Matilda Stern
August 12, 1975
“I’m not gonna sugar-coat nothin’!” I’d said at my interview. “I’m a maid. What I do is, I clean the house. You want somethin’ done different, you tell me. Other than that, we leave each other alone. Understand? That’s how I work! You don’t like it, then I’m not for you.”
I sneered, to show I meant business.
“You’re hired,” said Harvey Gabor, as he reached across the table to shake my hand. “How soon can you start?”
I started the next day. I polished priceless antiques for hours on end. The mansion went on an