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What about all the other creeps? I'm just very extra paranoid now to be honest.

And it's creeps, all types of creeps out there.

Like, I'm always gonna have that fear.

Tiffany Taylor grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey in the 80s and 90s.

She was raised at Jehovah's Witness, but her neighborhood was rough,

and at 18 years old, she was influenced away from her pious upbringing.

Sex work I never really got into personally.

But what happened was I had bumped it to this guy and he made up this story about how he

had a kid that had cancer and he couldn't afford to take care of the bills from the hospital and he

had asked me can I help him and me being very gullible being that I was so

sheltered I believed him and so my first time dancing at like a club or

anything period was actually at a strip club and I had brought my

cousin with me to go along and dance with me.

Even though I was gullible I wasn't stupid at the same time, so I kind of was like holding all the cash,

and I was telling him that when it's time to pay that bill that I was going to go with him and personally pay it.

So I probably was dancing maybe for like two weeks and just holding the cash for me and my cousin or whatever and I was

hiding it because I was staying at that time at his place. I remember hearing this older guy, I guess I was like coaching him or whatever,

hearing their conversation, him saying she's not supposed to be holding any of money. You gotta make

sure you get that money. Be her ass. That's when I remember him coming out the room and straight man handled me and my cousin.

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