Chapter 4 - Age Twenty-One to Age Twenty-Seven

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When Sora Sanduregost, also known as Saphrezdako, turned twenty-one, she left the janitor job at the science research complex in Harlem, and her best friend, Anna Rayathsam, left her job at the café on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. That same year, both Sora and Anna moved in to Inaskelshy Apartments; the building was on Sixth Avenue between West Tenth Street and Eleventh Street in Greenwich Village. Inaskelshy Apartments had six floors and thirty-four apartments.

Sora and Anna share an apartment on the second floor that had a half bath and full bath, kitchen, living room with three windows and a wood-burning fireplace, and two bedrooms—one had two windows, and the other bedroom had only one window. Anna took the larger bedroom with two windows so she could have a fashion-design work area, and Sora took the smaller bedroom with one window because she did not need a lot of space. She let Anna have the larger room because Anna would start fashion school soon.

Once Anna and Sora got settled into their apartment, they both started college at Greenwich Village

College on Fifth Avenue, between Sixth Avenue and University Place, in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan. Greenwich Village College had associates degrees in fashion design, fashion marketing, graphics design, interior design, liberal arts, business, health administration, information systems management, and accounting. The college also had bachelor's degree programs in applied general studies, humanities, social sciences, applied data analytics and visualization, health care management, information systems management, leadership and management studies, marketing estates, real estate, hotel and tourism management, sports management, architectural design, communication design, fashion design, fine arts, illustration, integrated design, photography, product design, strategic design and management, urban design, and financial services.

One rainy day when Sora was twenty-one, her friend Anna had left some fashion-design books on the living room table, and Sora started to read them. After that, Sora started to design her own custom-made evening dress.

Both Anna and Sora got new jobs at the age of twenty-two. Sora Sanduregost started working at the Greenwich Village Police Station as a janitor. The police station was on Tenth Street. Anna started working in a café that was in Tasperqua Bookstore, which was on East Seventeenth Street, Union Square, Midtown Manhattan.

Sora, known as Saphrezdako, finished her custom-made evening dress. It has a column silhouette that was calf-length, or tea length. It had a scoop neck, shaped like the letter U. The column-silhouette dress was made of stealth dyes with multiwall nanotubes, para-aramid fibers, and meta-aramid fibers. The three zippers on the dress were made of carbon fiber. The one zipper on the back went from the neck to the hips, and the other two zippers—one on the left side and one on the right—went from her thighs to the hem of the dress.

Sora also made custom-made panties to go with the dress. The style was hipster, and they were made of heat-resistant silk, para-aramid fibers, and a meta-aramid fiber blend; her bra was made of the same thing. The custom-

made evening dress and undergarments could withstand 500 Celsius or 930 Fahrenheit.

In that same year, a new restaurant, Sanduregost Restaurant, opened in Union Square in Midtown Manhattan.

One night, Sora Sanduregost was wearing her custom-made evening dress when she went to Sanduregost Restaurant for a evening meal. When she finished, she started walking home along East Fourteenth Street, and on her way, she passed through an area that did not have any security cameras. On the corner of East Fourteenth Street and Union Square West, a guy in a black hooded sweatshirt started to attack her. She dodged his knife and grabbed his arm and flipped him. After that a guy in a red hooded sweatshirt with a handgun shot at Sora. It hit her custom-made evening dress, and the dress stopped all five bullets that he had fired—the para-aramid fiber could withstand knifes and bullets.

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