Valentine #30 January 1960
In "Day In-Day Out," Joan, a young woman leaving her shift at the Minot Café at dawn, watches enviously as the glamorous dancers from the nearby Venrome club depart with their dates. When a kind policeman once asks if she’s one of them, she lies—and soon finds herself drawn into a quiet, recurring ritual of nightly walks home, each moment deepening her sense of entrapment in the fiction she’s spun. Carlos Prunés’ expressive art brings a quiet, poignant realism to this intimate story of longing and self-deception.
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As Joan leaves her job at the Minot Café at four in the morning, she is jealous of the glamour girls of the Venrome night club leaving with their boyfriends. One evening as she is walking home, she meets a policeman who asks her if she is one of the girls from the Venrome club and she lies, saying she is. She comes to like the policeman who walks her home each evening, but feels trapped by her original lie.
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