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Speaker 2: When you're in DC, the story finds you. But when

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Speaker 2: you're in Pennsylvania County, well you find the story. Picture it.

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Speaker 2: The mid seventies, in the heart of the South, Rodney

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Speaker 2: You see those ladies at the county Clerk's office. They

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Speaker 3: So I'm in Chatham, which is the county seat. I

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Speaker 3: went every week and looked at court records to see

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Speaker 1: Great sorcery stories.

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Speaker 3: And one of the corks came up to me and

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Speaker 2: As he thumbed through the file cabinet collection of this

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Speaker 3: And you start seeing all these rests people for prostitution,

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Speaker 3: And then there was this disraid and they had an

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Speaker 3: mistake was, if you want to call him, then he

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Speaker 3: gave the pimp cash money for sex and he actually

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Speaker 3: in court. You got a problem with that question becomes

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Speaker 3: quite as you do that. And number two, nothing is

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Speaker 1: To all those people who were arrested.

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Speaker 3: Virtually nothing. So that, plus the fact you're talking about

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Speaker 3: It's so out of the blue is to almost be incomprehensible.

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Speaker 1: So it attracts a lot of.

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Speaker 2: Attention, same people, same game, over and over. The crimes egregious,

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Speaker 2: the punishment low. Why Rodney couldn't help but notice that

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Speaker 2: Joseph Whitehead. When he first embarked upon this career as

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Speaker 2: What he'd seen in Washington had changed all that. He

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Speaker 2: in DC, the story came to you, But in Pennsylvania County, well,

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Speaker 2: you had to find the story. And Rodney had just

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Speaker 2: found one hell of a tale. Truck shot brothels run

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Speaker 2: by a web of x cons, a commonwealth attorney wasted

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Speaker 2: on whiskey and power protection exchanged for cash flex a

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Speaker 2: brash local reporter exposing it all. This is hookergate, criminals

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Speaker 2: and libertines in the South, And I am your hosts.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Lindsey Byron, author, historian and lifelong wayward woman. This

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Speaker 2: forgotten scandal happened in my hometown. Join me as I

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Speaker 2: use crumbling news clippings, interviews, and dramatic reenact is to

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Speaker 2: this wild ride of hedonistic corruption. Episode three, Cash and Flesh.

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Speaker 4: Now. What was the purpose of the enterprise and how

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Speaker 4: did it work? The purpose was to carry on unlawful

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Speaker 4: prostitution activities very profitable. Although these operations were in four

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Speaker 4: different counties in Virginia and two other states, the four

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Speaker 4: major operators lived in and around Danville, Virginia, and thus

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Speaker 4: the four operations in Pennsylvania County, that is the Hillcrest

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Speaker 4: Janet Heads from the fifty eight They formed the core

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Speaker 5: Now to protect the base of operations, at least three

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Speaker 5: of these operators were approached by defendant Holly and told

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Speaker 5: Defendant I had the ultimate tie in his Holly. He

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Speaker 2: Man, and you wouldn't believe who came in, Aubrey told

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Speaker 2: maybe he'd install a security system buttons that light up

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Speaker 2: as a warning in each girl's room. The four men

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Speaker 2: had done well for themselves in these early weeks and

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Speaker 2: came by? HWD? Asked Joseph Whitehead. Aubrey Ann's at last,

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Speaker 2: I knew what. Tommy groaned, and Harold Wayne clenched his fists.

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Speaker 2: stride and business running had a nice clip. Y'all, do

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Speaker 2: know who that is? Aubrey asked. Of course I know

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Speaker 2: who he is, replied Tommy. The bastards prosecuted me before. Then.

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Speaker 2: You know that mister Whitehead can be a powerful enemy

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Speaker 2: when it comes to the law. He's where it ends.

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Speaker 2: But let me tell you this man is not for friendship.

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Speaker 2: twiddled his fingers in his lap. He didn't think Whitehead

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Speaker 2: was all too friendly. You boys have been coasting long enough.

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Speaker 2: Whitehead's buddy had informed Herbert when he visited the Hillcrest,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to start paying off. I don't trust him,

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Speaker 2: That fella over there in a corner boot. That portly

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Speaker 2: gentleman with a smile and a plaid blazer. That fella,

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Speaker 2: y'all see him, Aubrey said, pointing to the gentleman who'd

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Speaker 2: been persecuting Harold Wayne with his eye. He's been staring

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Speaker 2: at me a whole down time I've been here. Harold

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Speaker 2: Wayne said, Well, I know him. Aubrey continued. That man

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Speaker 2: is called Wayne Holly. He owns a car dealership here

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Speaker 2: in Danville, and he continued, I don't think that's all

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Speaker 2: boys is he dropped Joe Whitehead off of my place

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Speaker 2: last night. Wayne Holly finished paying his bill and strode

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Speaker 2: straight towards the table of men. He looked around the cohort.

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Speaker 2: I'm each man individually, and then silently he turned and

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Speaker 2: asked Harold Wayne. That's what I want to know, said Tommy.

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Speaker 2: Hwd looked at his walk. Robin would be getting off

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Speaker 2: her morning shift in fifteen minutes. He bid his fellows

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Speaker 2: Harold Wayne Wayne Holly called out from inside a Cadilliac.

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Speaker 2: He rolled down his window and gestured, come here. Harold

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Speaker 2: Wayne approached the vehicle. Come on, brother, come set with

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Speaker 2: Harold Wayne said, Hey, I just want to talk to

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Speaker 2: you about some mutually beneficial propositions. Holly smiled and leaned over,

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Speaker 2: opening the passenger door, big and heavy. It swung open

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Speaker 2: with a groan, and so Harold Wayne, against his better judgment,

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Speaker 2: against his pride, and against his fear, got in. Now. Listen,

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Speaker 2: Wayne told him, I see you doing good business. A

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Speaker 2: lot of men enjoy the services of this kind of business,

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Speaker 2: and hell, I ain't above them. It is the world's

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Speaker 2: oldest industry, ain't it. Get to where you're going? Friend?

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Speaker 2: Where I'm going? Friend? Is this you are going to

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Speaker 2: to have to pay to keep this little Shindi going.

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Speaker 2: But you already knew that. I don't know to which

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Speaker 2: operation you refer, Sir, Harold Wayne replied, I'm simply an intermediary,

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Speaker 2: an intermediary between who Well, I'm just a simple man.

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Speaker 2: But my friend, you see, he ain't so simple, my friend,

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Speaker 2: you see, he can help your business protected. And who

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Speaker 2: exactly is your friend, Harold Wayne asked, Oh, Wayne replied,

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Speaker 2: I think you know him.

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Speaker 1: Joe's a cocky Democrat, Powell. When you got any common

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Speaker 1: weals attorney, you know you got your bootleg from Joe.

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Speaker 1: He had all his buddies. You paid Joe, you get

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Speaker 2: Well. Lifelong conservative Frankie Jones might not think too much

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Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party in general. Some things can't be disputed,

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Speaker 2: and among those are certain individuals involvement with shall we say,

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Speaker 2: isn't strong enough a word to describe Whitehead's role in

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Speaker 2: Hooker Gate. Perhaps boss, beneficiary, protector might be more accurate.

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Speaker 2: Power We'll do that to a man, push him to

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Speaker 2: exempt him from all rules, steal from him the novelty excitement.

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Speaker 2: Nothing feels like anything anymore. When everything's available, power giveth

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Speaker 2: and power taketh away. Among the things power giveth is freedom,

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Speaker 2: freedom to do whatever the hell you want. Among the

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Speaker 1: I just say that's where he can't hit. I guess

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Speaker 1: you'd say privilege, old old time privilege plus Democratic party power.

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Speaker 1: He was the man to go see, and he was

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Speaker 1: in the middle of it.

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Speaker 6: He was.

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Speaker 1: If you got caught prostitution, he threw it out. Never

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Speaker 1: nowhow if I'm en chatam and married and I get

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Speaker 1: caught with a prostitute, Joe Friday, it's gonna be my

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Speaker 1: best friend, Joe. You got to get me out of

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Speaker 1: this damn thing. Yeah, you give me now. I never

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Speaker 1: wear to pardon two thousand dollars. It's all taken care of.

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Speaker 1: And that's where it worked. No copy.

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Speaker 2: Whitehead would throw out a friend's prostitution case, Sherrie would.

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Speaker 2: Whitehead was a man too, after all, with means that is,

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Speaker 2: frustrated marriage did not meet. However, he could not meet

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Speaker 1: Wayne Holly was a big one in it. Wayne on

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Speaker 1: when we were fifteen sixteen, Wayne, our selves bell at

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Speaker 1: good old country boy. But he was a big shot

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Speaker 1: But he was just a country boy. Wayne was a

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Speaker 6: In addition to making monetary payments for protection, Dowdy also

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Speaker 2: A man hollered from the background, A brunette with big kitty.

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Speaker 2: Harold Wayne drove from the street lights of Danville to

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Speaker 2: But with this particular gentleman, this particular gentleman was important.

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Speaker 2: Not one could be smart mouth. As Harold Wayne drove

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Speaker 2: Robin thought, the most powerful men make playgrounds out of

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Speaker 2: She had asked him, still sweaty. After their first physical encounter,

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Speaker 2: Robin was no stranger to. She'd been handling things since

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Speaker 2: But somehow you were out here doing just what they

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Speaker 7: passing through behind him, I could see into another room

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Speaker 7: with a jukebox and a pinball machine and a sign

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Speaker 7: over it that said lounge members only. I asked the man,

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Speaker 7: what does it take to become a member and be

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Speaker 7: able to get into this lounge? He replied, all you

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Speaker 2: It takes them a little while to get used to

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Speaker 2: the ida, the veteran explained to the neophyte as together

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Speaker 2: they smoked cigarettes at the bar. Connie was a wild child,

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Speaker 2: was young in years an experience, she was mature. They

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Speaker 2: might not agree right away, she explained, leaning back against

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Speaker 2: the wood paneled wall lighting a Virginia slim. Don't be deterred, No,

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Speaker 2: it's the first step to yes for a new girl

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Speaker 2: like Buckeye a woman like Connie was good to find

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Speaker 2: while to warm up. Connie continued, But once they get

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Speaker 2: the notion planted in their mind, well seems to me

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Speaker 2: that they can't quite get it out. It's like, not

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Speaker 2: only do they get used to the idea, they get

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Speaker 2: obsessed with the idea. Can't blame them, Buckeye replied, I mean,

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Speaker 2: she just shirt at Connie's body toe to head. She

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Speaker 2: wasn't wrong. Connie was beautiful. They both were teenagers, grown

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Speaker 2: up fast, long hair parted down the middle in the

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Speaker 2: one thick. Tommy liked to keep a variety of women

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Speaker 2: on the roster, something for every man. Connie pointed in

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Speaker 2: the direction of the four men who had recently entered

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Speaker 2: the lounge and nudged Buckeye. Watch him learn, she said,

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Speaker 2: But just do one thing for me. Okay, okay. When

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Speaker 2: I wink at you, Connie said, pull out your titties.

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Speaker 2: With that, he strode over to the men. You boys

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Speaker 2: looking for somebody prettier than Roy to talk to, she asked,

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Speaker 2: shirts with name patches, hands dotted with grease. She draped

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Speaker 2: herself over the back of the booth, pressing her breasts

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Speaker 2: seat and grinned. Kat got your tongue, She asked, Do

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Speaker 2: you boys want to party or are you just here

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Speaker 2: to drink Sodi pop? She pointed to the round of

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Speaker 2: cheer wines on the table. Well, I don't know, the

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Speaker 2: biggest of the men piped up, what do you mean

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Speaker 2: by party? Connie's smile looked up to catch the eyes

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Speaker 2: of the new girl by the bar. The men followed

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Speaker 2: Now Connie winked and the trick was complete. That ought

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Speaker 2: to clear up any confusion. She told the men, I personally,

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Speaker 2: I would personally like to know more about these parties.

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Speaker 2: One of the fellas squeaked. His buddies laughed at him,

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Speaker 2: but not without a glint of envy in their eyes.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you follow me down this hallway? And we

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Speaker 2: can talk more about it now. Look, ma'am, I don't

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Speaker 2: know about any hallways. You're scared, not scared, just broke.

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Speaker 2: The men looked sheepishly around it each other. What do

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Speaker 2: you fellas do anyway, Connie asked. We're builders, The leader

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Speaker 2: of the men said, on a job from South Hill.

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Speaker 2: We was working on some construction projects in the locality

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Speaker 2: and just thought we'd stop on in for for aesoda.

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Speaker 2: Connie finished, Well, why don't you come back after you've

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Speaker 2: been paid for your construction project in the locality, and

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Speaker 2: then we can talk about what you really came here for.

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Speaker 2: She looked up winked. From across the room, Buckeye pulled

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Speaker 2: out her titties again. Hey, let me see your room.

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Speaker 2: Connie smiled at Buckeye and then at the man taking

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Speaker 2: him by the hand down the hallway. Together, they passed

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Speaker 2: door after door. Peeking in into one that was open,

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Speaker 2: he spied a small room with a calendar on the

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Speaker 2: to the bed was a table with a lamp and

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Speaker 2: a notebook well used. He'd loved to know what was

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Speaker 2: information he'd be interested in. There are more rooms back here,

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Speaker 2: Connie said, as they passed a bathroom with an open door.

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Speaker 2: A solitary light bulb hung from the ceiling, flickering. A

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Speaker 2: douchebag draped over the shower rod, and for a moment,

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Speaker 2: the man experienced a moral quandary. Yes, this was work,

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Speaker 2: Gate is a production of iHeartMedia. Moose Moose, This, fucking this,

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Speaker 2: this fucking dog is against hooker Gate