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Some voices may come from voice actors, but the words are accurate to the interview described. Long black Highway.

Out way.

Take me on. Lot lizards, that's what they call them, the kind of prostitutes who work truck stops and trailer parks. of Holler, minimum wage hustlers, closer to the Hollywood stereotype of the Rust Belt Hooker. You know the one.

She has a heart of gold and a drug problem.

High heels, a leopard print skirt, and a drug problem, high heels, a leopard print skirt and probably some red lipstick and a

sea section scar. The term Lottwizard was coined by a comedian in the 1970s and took off from there.

Even if you take offense at the sneering attitude of this label, you have to admit it has a kind of ring to it. It might make you think of

leathery old women prowling parking lots past their sexual prime and willing

to do anything for a buck.

More fundamentally, it evokes the image of a slimy predator lurking in the sunlight and looking to draw unsuspecting flies into its mouth.

But these women and sometimes men are less predator than prey.

You know those rows of semi- less predator than prey.

You know those rows of semi trucks behind gas stations, usually in low-lit parking lots about

50 yards from the pumps where you get your gas. Those are the unofficial roadside

motels of the trucking world. The cabs of some of these trucks are

basically forerunners of the tiny house movement. They have Murphy beds and

sound systems, microwaves, fridges, TVs, pretty much everything but a bathroom

and if you really want one you can also have a bathroom, bathroom, and if you really want one, you can also have a bathroom installed.

Those trucks look empty from the outside, but on the inside they are full of life

or something like it. They're inhabited by tired, lonely men, far from home, often in

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