THE DIRTYGIRL DIARIES - What I did for Love

THE DIRTYGIRL DIARIES - What I did for Love

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April 2025

All of Me, Why Not Take All of Me?
Or at least help me figure out where some of me belongs. I've been feeling split, compartmentalized by having two disparate publications, both with a…
Published on The Long Goodbye : Dementia Caregiving & Other Stories • 
The Ties that Bind: Rape as a Job Hazard
In the aftermath of a horrible attack, I couldn’t change my whole life, but I could change a small part of it
Published on Open Secrets Magazine • 
Episode 13 ❤️‍🩹 1976-78 : A Tale of Two Dreams
One of dying violently. One of sitting between Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon.
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A Double Life or a House of Mirrors?
Carving Narrative Out of Noise: The Mess, the Message, the Methods. I wasn’t living a double life; I was living lots of lives simultaneously…
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Episode 12 ❤️‍🩹 1975 : Let's Talk Big Pimpin'
The Golden Era of the Times Square Pimp Game. Some folks think stripping is a gateway drug to prostitution. The pimps sitting at my bar were counting on…
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March 2025

Episode 11 ❤️‍🩹 1975 : Do you Spit or Swallow?
The strip joint short con known as The Champagne Hustle, like every con, it relied on appearance, misdirection & playing your role. Done right, a girl'd…
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Episode 10 ❤️‍🩹 1975 : whirling curvish
I climbed on to that stage with nothing but a borrowed G-string and chutzpah. For half a song, the name & tune of which I wish I could remember, it was…
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You Blinked & Everything Disappeared
Survival Means Piecing Together The Truth of a Life You Can't Recall. You can’t remember your life because you weren’t there. Life, your life, is…
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Episode 9 ❤️‍🩹 1975 : The Lady Really Is A Tramp
Learning how to be a lady, from the pimp I wanted to work for. Apparently, there’s a fine line between sleazy and sexy and teaching me to walk that line…
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