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December 1985

The Happy Hooker

WHEN I WAS young I often dreamed of becoming a teacher, preacher, scholar, artist, poet, actor, and lover (to name just a few of my ambitions). I never had high hopes of being a liar, thief, cheat, gay person, nut, drug addict, jailbird, or alcoholic, but somehow I managed to make it in all of those categories, and sometimes all at the same time--except for the "jailbird" part. I could do it all there except the artwork; they didn't keep art supplies for the guests.

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