"How did you get into sex-work?"
"You mean prostitution No politically correct euphemisms, please. Remember Sarah's friend in Melbourne?"
"Oh, yes. And of course, I did also hear plenty from Kenny. He says he didn't think he could ever rise completely above the degradation, that it would stay with him for the rest of his life."
"Why do you think I have been so keen on us reading his diary?"
"Cathartic?"
"Yes. Very."
But you come from a rich family. I can't accept that you were just doing it for the money."
"There were lots of factors involved. There was my coke addiction. Dad was very parsimonious about child support when mom took us away from him, despite his hundreds of millions, and only after farming us out to him at the mansion did he relent and decide to write us into his will, effectively leaving us everything. But, Chris", Carl adds, rather halting and portentous sounding, "Do you know what all ho's really have in common?"
"Tell me."
"We were all sexully abused as children..."
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