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San Francisco, Present Day
With a puff of relief over her large knit scarf, Anna Kincaid hustled into the lobby of
the newly renovated Milton Building. Sleek stone and an immaculate water feature
with cascading ferns were the backdrop of her wide desk that faced the front doors.
Slipping behind it with her cup of piping hot macchiato—a little habit she’d
picked up now that a cup of coffee wasn’t an unaffordable luxury—Anna went
about her morning routine, getting ready for the day’s visitors to the new Gwyneth
Collection. There was something soothing about the routine, something that helped
her make baby steps every day in accepting that for once, something had gone right
in her life.
If anyone had told Anna a year ago that she’d be happily sitting in a quiet
museum, a genuine smile on her face for the visitors trickling in, she’d have called
bullshit. With a degree in history with a focus on early-medieval England, Anna
thought for sure she’d be bound for some crappy-paying admin job that slowly
sucked the soul out of her. She’d resigned herself to that fate—if it paid and had
benefits, she wouldn’t complain. Aloud.
Instead, Anna found herself twirling in her ergonomic chair, looking forward to
the day. Just over two months ago, after years of working in minimum wage and
temp positions while performing financial acrobatics to make ends meet, Anna had
applied to this position on a whim. A rich, eccentric couple had spent their lives
collecting statues—mostly grotesques from around the world—and had decided to
share their collection with the public.
Anna’s eyebrows had nearly hit her hairline in
surprise while reading the job posting; it seemed too good to be true. Decent pay,
not high but it had benefits and enough to pay the rent and fill the fridge. Mostly
admin and front desk work mixed with docent duties. Yet the chance to work with
actual history was too much temptation. That and the healthcare.
She’d promised herself she wouldn’t go another year without it. Not with how
bad her migraines were getting.
So Anna had pasted on the fake smile she’d worked her life to perfect, the one
she threw at family court judges and skeptical welfare agents and unyielding debt
collectors, and nailed the interview. Just a few minutes in the collection made her
desperate for the job, if only to stay with the amazing pieces. She swore she could
feel the weight falling off her shoulders when one of the co-owners of the collection,
Carrie Gwyneth, called to offer her the job the next day.
Wednesday through Sunday, she sat in her cushy chair, waiting to greet visitors
to the museum. Though not affiliated with other big museums in the California Bay
Area, like the MOMA or de Young, the museum still pulled in regular traffic thanks
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