Garments of Fleas

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Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Busy as a Call Girl on Valentine's Day - 4 of 4

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I woke disturbed by the same bad dream I always have of being chased by the police because someone told a lie about me. Janey and I showered...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Busy as a Call Girl on Valentine's Day - 1 of 4

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by Daryl Edelman This story originally appeared in Sex and Guts , a website and magazine edited by Gene Gregorits and Lydia Lunch in 2003. O...
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Regina Edelman
Brazilian-born of mixed race and condemned to poverty, Garments of Fleas is the story of my life. As a child, I carried water to survive and had nothing but an urgent hope to escape the mud-caked floors of my crumbling flea-infested home, earning my freedom from my mother only when she forced me to support her by working as a nanny and maid in a history teacher's home when I was twelve years old. My story is about escape through introspection and reason, searching for answers from cruel circumstances like mine by observing man and nature.
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