"The first year in the Hausbesorger's apartment was a bad one. I couldn't get used to our new way of life, and I was terribly ashamed of being poor.
I had previously hated school, but now I was anxious to go each morning because it got me away from home. I spent most weekends at the Jensens' apartment. But my happiest escape from the situation at home was going to the Opera everyday.
Often, when I got there, I leaned hard against the heavy side door of the Opera House to close it as quickly as I could, to shut out the world outside, a world I no longer liked.
I didn't think that, except for Uncle Otto, anyone at the Opera knew that I had become as the Viennese call it 'a Hausbesorger's Daughter.' The term had all the unfair implications that a racial slur has in America."
From page 83 of Hausbesorger's Daughter, I mean, As The Waltz was Ending by Emma Macalik Butterworth
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