Lori's friend meets Jeannette at the bus station and escorts her to the German restaurant where Lori is a waitress.
Jeannette gets a job at a burger joint, and she and Lori get an apartment in the Bronx, like Jennifer Lopez.
Jeannette loves the apartment, mostly because it has a toilet.
To finish school, Jeannette enrolls in a public school that offers internships.
The internships lead to a job at a small paper called The Phoenix.
Worried about Brian, the sisters bring their brother to New York, too.
Even though Jeannette isn't planning on going to college, she eventually decides to go to Barnard, Columbia University's sister school. (Columbia only took men at this time.)
Life rolls on, and eventually the Wallses move their youngest sister, Maureen, to New York. Now all the Walls kids are free of their parents.