In the week prior I’d”—Casey held up her fingers like quotation marks—“‘serviced’ more than a hundred clients. Which in English means I’d been raped for profit fifteen times a day. One after another. To keep me busy, or rather get the most money for my time, my traffickers had put my available schedule on the dark web. Sold thirty-minute slots. I’m told I was profitable. But that ‘profit’”—more quotation marks—“I never saw a dime. Selling flesh is different than selling drugs. Drugs you sell once. Flesh you sell a thousand times over. To help me forget, to transport my mind out of the hell in
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