"I hope she'll be a fool," her mother once said. "That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
But Pamela Buchanan was never a fool.
In time, the glamour that was later called "the Roaring 20's" quickly corroded away into the dull grey of the Great Depression.
"WALL ST. IN PANIC AS STOCKS CRASH" was the headline of the October 24th, 1929 edition of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Shortly after that, everything went to hell.
Tom Buchanan was tried and found to be guilty of Embezzlement, and was shot in the head as he left the courthouse.
Pamela would remember decades later when one morning when she went to awak