ralph trapaga: oh my goodness someone: pretty girl. wendy: give a little turn. dennis murphy: at easter, she memorably dolled-up her nieces for a living room fashion show. ralph trapaga: and here is the director of the entire operation. dennis murphy: how nice a kid was this church-going, slightly sheltered, girl? well there's this story of the classmate without a dress: ralph trapaga: one girl-- couldn't afford to go to the prom. and-- wendy got this girl prettied up, got her a dress, everything. that was the heart she had." dennis murphy: after graduation, two cousins who owned their own salons urged wendy to follow in their footsteps. dennis murphy: she had a flair for it. and you can do very well in that field-- rita trapaga: yes, she did. yes she did. dennis murphy: so at twenty-one, after a brief marriage, she enrolled in beauty school. and in 2002 that's where she first saw michel escoto rumble up on his fire engine red ducati motorcycle. michel was a self-taught web designer and sometime teacher of computing but by his early 30's he was looking for a care