Alaina Urquhart
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So they would walk out of there as the sun's going down and they're glowing.
A painter, Edna Bowles, said, when I would go home at night, my clothing would shine in the dark.
You could see where I was, my hair, my face.
The girls shone like the watches did in the darkroom.
So like you just watch this like line of beautiful young girls.
Like that must have been like, of course you want to just like idolize this situation.
It just must seem so like otherworldly.
And girls would wear clothing to work that they wanted to wear to the dance later, like on Fridays.
And they would do that so they would get the radium glow on that dress that they wanted to wear.
And then later at the dance, they would be fucking glowing on the dance floor.
So everybody's like, there's that radium girl.
And it's like, this was awesome.