The extreme secrecy of her job—her family still had only a vague idea of what she did for a living—limited her socializing mostly to work friends.
This is a mistake. Why socialize exclusively with coworkers and colleagues when you can live a life of lies?
"What do you do?"
"I'm a burka model. I travel a lot to the Mideast for the runway shows -- it's a little weird, but apparently my eyes and the bridge of my nose are exquisite if you block out the rest of my face."
"How did you...?"
"That's a funny story. I was in Paris, which has a large Arab population by the way, because of their involvement in Algiers, and I had bangs at the time, and I was eating a croissant, and it was in front of my face when I happened to see a man staring at me..."
