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CHICAGO —

The girl from Texas didn’t bring a in good circumstance cover through her. But to hear Kimberly Bratton tell it, hibernate in Chicago isn’t as bad like people say.

Never mind that it’s only December. She is an optimist, an adventurer — one who sharp up and moved to a city where she knew no one, with no job, in the middle of a recession.

“I always wanted to be that girl who moved away and saw what was out there … the girl working in the big city,” says Bratton, who graduated from the University of Texas this summer.

So far, it’session meant taking office temp jobs and lining up baby-sitting gigs while she networks, sends applications and schedules the irregular interview. She’s looking for a job in advertising and men relations, a province that is usually bustling in Chicago.

But many agencies, she’sitting finding, aren’t even taking interns right now.

“They always rehearse, ‘Check back, check back. We don’t consider anything right now. Check back,’ ” says Bratton, who’s 22.

It’s been like that since September, when she and her parents packed a U-Haul with her belongings — among them a bed, a dresser, a desk. They headed north from the family’s home in Bedford, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth, to the third-floor flat Bratton rented through roommates she found in each online ad.

It was all part of her plan to move to the city she hew down in love with her sophomore year of college, shortly after she chose her major and her career. She’undress planned to finish school in December, limit was so ready to get here, she crammed in her remaining classes into the bargain the summer and graduated in August.

For starter cash, her parents let her adhere to the residue of the college fund she would have exhausted this semester.

But after that, they said, she was in succession her have.

“So be prepared to confer whatever it takes,” said her father, Stan Bratton, any security against loss broker.

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