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THE DIRTYGIRL DIARIES - What I did for Love

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Episode 21 ❤️‍🩹 1979 : Learn How to Pimp, Courtesy of the Porkpie Bar

First lesson of survival? Never get in the car.

Episode 20 ❤️‍🩹 1979 : How to Make Really Bad Choices: The Cadillac Cowboy

There was a really bad week in 1979. Biblical plagues kind of bad. No brimstone, but there will be fire and insects...

Boobage: A Short History of Working Boobers

I outgrew undershirts and training bras and had an epiphany. Boobs appeared on my chest at the same time boys started appearing at my door.

Don't All Little Girls Dream of their Someday Wedding?

With no model for a good marriage or a happy home, I let Times Square become my Smalltown USA, where I fit in with everyone who didn't fit in.

Episode 19 ❤️‍🩹 1979 : This is What Love Looked Like

When passion turned to violence, this is also what survival looked like

What Will I Find in the Center of my Onion?

Excavating feelings I hadn’t been aware I was feeling

Episode 18 ❤️‍🩹 1979 : He Wanted To Beat The Wicked Out Of Me With A Bible

If life was a horror movie, this’d be the scene when the audience starts screaming at the stupid white girl “No! Don’t go in there!” With audio.

Episode 17 ❤️‍🩹 1979 : What Happens When You Fall In Love With A Crazy Homeless Man

A wedding ring told the world I belonged to someone, that someone loved me enough to brand me. Also, the twins, Shame and Loneliness.

Episode 16 ❤️‍🩹 1979 : Love & Rage, You Can't Have One Without The Other.

I'd set a very low bar for boyfriends. Having subsisted on emotional crumbs, almost any attention was intoxicating. Warning: Do not get between a girl and her intoxicant.