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Chapter 1: My Daughter Is Being Hookerish

“Jesus, lay off the carbs!” rily from below

Her hands are on les to help pushout earlier tonight Asto pull myself into this stupid onder for the hundredth ti this

“Shut up and push harder!” I whisper back to her, s up and over the sill, losing one of hbors seea fancy dress and call the police, thinking I’m some kind of well-dressed robber

“OW! Son of a bitch, your shoe just hit ave me a black eye I willher hand as hard as she can againstto pull myself the rest of the way inside

After all of the stress of the last few ht, put on a pretty dress and go to a fundraiser for the Anie of shutting down, I’ more and more discontent with the fact that I still live at houilty for keeping my problems from my two best friends and business partners, Cindy and Ariel—but for one night, I was able to push everything aside For a little while, I forgot about ot to witness Cindy and her boyfriend PJ, the owner of Charet a real life happily-ever-after right in front of h, it onderful to see her find her Prince Char

The three of us became fast friends e all realized we shared sih and dry when her ex-husband skipped toith the babysitter and took all their money with him Ariel was forced to sell her antique store when her ex-husband screwed her over Andinout of ideas on how to keep the town library I run open for er if I can’t come up with a way to raise money for it We were all pretty desperate e met

We were dressed in princess costumes at the annual Halloween block party on the street Cindy and Ariel live on when one of Cindy’s neighbors approached us and hired us to perforirl’s birthday party It turned out ere actually hired to take our clothes off for athat entle un and screa about how it all happened Deciding to start a hoht not sound like a good idea for three women who have never taken their clothes off for money before, but it has turned out to be the best idea we’ve ever had

And even though I haven’t started doing any of the stripping parties that our coet a s with the adh to keep the doors of the library open, thanks toto worry about any personal bills of my own, since I still live at ho to pile up, and soon that little bit of extra h And even er I can continue cliht after one to sleep It would be nice to sneak back in the house using h lesson when I snuck out a feeeks ago: Apparently, ht and put the chain on the door After sleeping in his car in the garage until he woke up to get thea shower, I thanked God he didn’t also httime safety check