She shook her head.  "I am too old now to be in an orphanage, I think.  But work that was enough to make it, is another question.  I don't want to be stuck in a factory nor do I want to be working the streets like some girls have been pushed into."  She explained.  "It has just been easier to live free as a boy." 

"You were supposed to think I was a boy.  I got paid more that way and it was safer in the streets."