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"Artists."

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The one artist painted chickens,
cartoon chickens over and over

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in various hilarious situations.

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One Saturday she went over to
his house in her blue Pinto

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to clean.

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She was 16 and this
is what she did.

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She cleaned houses $10 an hour.

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It was good money.

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Soon after she arrived, he asked
if she'd go to the liquor store

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and pick up a bottle of booze
for him on the clock of course.

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Well, sure, anything was
better than swabbing toilets,

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and she could do it.

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She had a fake ID.

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Off she went to
the liquor store,

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came back with the bottle,
continued to clean.

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She started on his
bedroom bathroom.

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There were girlie
magazines on the floor.

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No big deal.

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The other guy she
cleaned for had them too.

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But then something was wrong,
some new sound or presence.

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She looked out the window.

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The trees were close and
throbbing with insects.

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This was summer in Connecticut.

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She looked out the bathroom
door to his bedroom.

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He was on the bed
pulling out his penis.

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She retracted her head
and stood in the bathroom.

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She thought for a second.

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Only one way out and that
was through the bedroom.

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She started walking fast through
the bedroom down the hall,

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down the stairs.

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He was following her.

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She was out the door.

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She was at her car.

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She was in it.

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He was right behind
her, scraggly beard

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and thin little chicken
body fucking artist.

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And she was rolling up
the window in his face.

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He wasn't the first
artist she'd met.

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There was the man
who painted nudes,

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very handsome that guy, very.

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Much older than she was.

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She and her friend
were now with him

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and his friend and his blue
van and there was some but not

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complete sexual activity
in the back of the blue van

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during the drive in.

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And there was the
return to his house.

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Vast canvases of
naked women emerging

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from the ocean,
covering every wall,

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not only the ocean,
once a meadow.

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He was also a very competent
artist, a photo realist.

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The breasts of the
women were rather large,

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their expressions breathless.

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She herself was a
sophisticated girl.

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She made some comment
about composition or color

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as if there were no
women there at all.

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Those whimsical years she
also met a photographer.

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He came up to her and
two friends at the beach.

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He was older too and
certainly not the type of guy

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they'd even consider
for boyfriend status.

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But he was a photographer.

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He said, in fact, that he
was looking for models.

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He paid $100 for a half hour.

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All you did was take off
your top, nothing else.

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His studio was just 15
minutes away in Norwalk.

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It surprises me
that I had forgotten

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about the photographer
until now 20 years later.

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A 14-year-old girl
has been abducted.

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It's all over the national news.

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Photographs and videos
reveal her insouciant smile,

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her gazelle body.

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My friends and I giggled and
considered, though I do not

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know how seriously, the offer.

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