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Sapphire’s The Kid…will hurt ya soul!

May 6, 2020August 2, 2011 by Shay

Fifteen years after the release of Push, Sapphire has done it again with another novel that will touch your soul and take it places you can’t even imagine. Now the question is do you want to go there and find out what I think, if you do you can read my review for the Blogher …

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Categories Book Reviews Tags Blogher Book Club, Sapphire, The Kid

Cash for ya time pretty lady, it’s nothing new

May 23, 2017August 1, 2011 by Shay

Once upon a time, in what now seems like a lifetime ago, I was a 21 year old divorcee with a young child and rather dim prospects for my future. Having made the decision to drop out of high school in the middle of my senior year only to run off and get married only …

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Categories Current Events, Random babble Tags middle class desperation, sex industry, sex workers

A birth story…6 years later

May 23, 2017July 30, 2011 by Shay

This weekend is my daughter’s sixth birthday, what follows is excerpts from her birth story that I am sharing with her, as such it written to my private audience and not my normal reader. Dear Daughter, Tonight is the last night you will be 5, tomorrow you enter the world of being a six year …

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Categories Parenting, personal growth, Random babble Tags birth story 3 Comments
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