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  Wednesday  October 8  2003    12: 25 AM

surviving

The American Stripper XXX

"Yeah, it's for the money."

Jezebel is probably the strongest woman I've met. I'd watch the coldness in her eyes as she stared at her own naked body in a mirror while she danced and then feel the suffocating warmth of her voice when she talked about her dying son.

Jezebel began dancing three nights a week and every other weekend when she found out her seven-year-old son had a brain tumor. Within weeks the tumor had spread. He was in and out of hospitals every couple of days.

One day you're an accountant, at a desk all day, phone calls, lunch breaks, errands, carpools. The next you're given a $20 bill to sit on a man, press against him, hold him, touch him - until he gets off. Trip.
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  thanks to cipango