When she was a small child Elaine felt as though she had been wrapped in plastic from head to toe, nothing coming in. Her little world stayed the same, unchanging during a great Depression, and even though the country was suffering, the only glimmer of anything important to her was the fact that her mother's family - Elaine's grandmother, aunt and two uncles - had moved into her family's small apartment and were living in her suddenly crowded space. From the Great Depression to World War II, through the traumas, frustrations and fears of being at war, the hazards of high school, hers was...
When she was a small child Elaine felt as though she had been wrapped in plastic from head to toe, nothing coming in. Her little world stayed the same...
"She had worn the perfume PULSE tonight. She did not wear it often, preserving the prototype, rationing the delicate yet potent, oddly familiar scent, the fragrance Pierre had created for her, woodsy, spicy, and sensuous. Wrapped in PULSE, her heartbeat sending out the fragrance, she was ready for whatever came up." Mona Burbank, an international film star, owns the formula for PULSE, and extraordinary perfume with a secret time release given to her in Cannes ten years before by Jean-Pierre Delain, a chemist with whom she had a brief affair. Swifty Sam McDonald, entrepreneur and fast talker,...
"She had worn the perfume PULSE tonight. She did not wear it often, preserving the prototype, rationing the delicate yet potent, oddly familiar scent,...
