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  Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Quiz: Who Said It, the Whore or the Minister’s Daughter? My boss Caroline was pretty crazy. However, I think that had more to do with [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 95: Don’t Nitpick Your Body. Because the Little Things Matter. I arrived at boss Caroline’s apartment, bearing her morning Starbucks [...]

Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 87: Don’t Tell Other People What They Should Desire. It’s Almost Always Selfish. “Sex is a need,” my boss Caroline told me. She was a professional [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 86: Don’t Obey Orders if it Means Sacrificing Self-Respect. I didn’t want to clean the litter box in my boss’s bathroom. I didn’t [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 78: Paying by the hour doesn’t preclude having holiday spirit. “Are you going to decorate for Christmas?” I asked my boss Caroline. “Nah,” [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 74: If You Want to Hide What You’re Doing, Maybe You Shouldn’t be Doing It. I lit the candles first. That way, when the client walked [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 70: Intimacy is personal. “Do you ever fall in love with your clients?” I asked my boss Caroline. She looked at me over the rim of [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 66: People Appreciate It when You Don’t Force Them to Confess to Crimes The cell phone in my pocket rang, and my heart went into overdrive. [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underbelly. Moral 60: Some Decisions can be Delegated. Who You Sleep with Isn’t One of Them.   My boss Caroline handed me one of her cell phones. [...]

Just a Regular Working Girl: Moralistic Values Gleaned from My Time in Chicago’s Seedy Underworld Moral 58: Your Mom Doesn’t Need to Know Everything   “Does your family know what you do?” I asked my boss Caroline. “I mean, when [...]