Poetry Classics Words Blog F. Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member. Susan Adele Wiggins Dec One night at the Troubadour I spotted this extraordinary girl.
So I asked who she was. Once I became aware, I saw these women everywhere. And I came to learn that most of them were connected to Alex II. One of her girls took up with a rotter, the couple had a fight, he went to the police, the police had an undercover detective visit who just happened to be an attractive woman and ask to work for her, she all but embraced her βand by April of the district attorney had enough evidence to charge her with two counts of pandering and one of pimping.
For Alex, who is fifty-six and has a heart condition and diabetes, the stakes may be high. A conviction carries the guarantee of incarceration. For the forces of law and order, the stakes may be higher. And the revelations this might produce βperhaps that Alex compromised policemen by making girls available to them, βperhaps that Alex had a deal with the police to provide information in exchange for their blind eye to her activities βcould be hugely embarrassing to the police and the district attorney.
If she decides to warble, either at her trial or in a book, her song will shatter more than glass. A decade ago, I went to lunch at Ma Maison, There were supposed to have been ten people there, but only four came.
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One of them was a short woman who called me a few days later and invited me to lunch. When I arrived, the table was set for two. Alex handed her a business card and suggested that she think about it. To her surprise, she did βfor an entire week. Our whole conversation seemed to be about something else. I was born in Manila to a Spanish-Filipina mother and German father, and when I was twelve a Japanese soldier came into our house with his bayonet pointed at us, ready to do us in.
