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Long back outweigh. Long Black Highway.

Out way.

Take me all. By the time someone becomes a lot lizard, they have, by and large, already suffered enough. Truck stop sex work is a late stop on a tour of misery.

That almost always begins at home.

And if it doesn't begin at home, it begins just outside of it, with bad boyfriends, bad

uncles, and other predators with their foot already in the door.

Interview any one lizard or 20 and you'll hear a similar story.

Their home life or left life was, to put it mildly, problematic.

One way or another, their original inner circle was fractured around them, and like the fluid

of a ruptured cell, they just sort of leaked out.

They ran out into the interstitial space of society, into dark recesses, and places their parents

didn't know, or places their boyfriends wouldn't find them.

In almost every case, these are places that simply should not be.

And no matter which is the original problem, the home life or the love life, once one of these

goes bad, the other almost always follows.

It's almost as if rational stability, especially for young women, is like a

three-legged stool. You only have to break one leg to bring the whole thing crashing down.

Bad boyfriends, especially in protective families, cause friction at home. Bad families normalize bad relationships,

so vulnerable girls go looking for love, with no idea of what it actually looks like.

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