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Story Behind The Book
My name is Ashly and for the past several years I have worked as a female escort. I started out by advertising in the now extinct Craig's List "erotic services" section. Having lived with my grandparents for most of my childhood, moving to Portland from the Oregon Coast gave me a chance to spend some time with my mother. Like her, I'm a drug addict with a decided preference for crystal meth or "uppers" in general. In an odd and unexpected way, it was our addictions that brought us "together." It always seemed to be a man that ended up forcing us apart again. Many new experiences were waiting for me in Portland, some of which I would never have imagined. Moving to Portland is where it all started. This book is a scattered personal journal chronicling the last several years of my very unconventional life.
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<span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span><strong><em><span>"The mental and physical anguish that is portrayed will certainly reach anyone and pull at them as a human being."</span></em></strong></span> --Claudia Rhyes (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviews&bookid=10149">ManicReaders.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">)<br /><br /><span><strong><em>"If you choose to read this book, be prepared for the painful truth. Ashly holds nothing back -when it comes to drug use and Mom."</em></strong></span> --Shannon Yarbrough (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://llbookreview.com/2011/01/review-185-sex-drugs-being-an-escort-by-ashly-lorenzana/">LLBookReview.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">)<br /><br /><span><strong><em>"My intentions were to finish reading this book earlier this month, but it was such a "heavy" read that I had to read it in small doses."</em></strong></span> --Mandy (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://literaryrr.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-sex-drugs-being-escort-by-ashly.html">Literary R&R</a></span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span><div><br /><div style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>"Ashley is a unique young woman who took the lemons of her childhood and made them into lemonade...</em></strong></span><strong style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>You may find her choice of lifestyle distasteful, even immoral from your standards; but the better you know her, the more you will understand why she selected to continue in her profession." </em></strong><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">--</span><a href="http://readersfavorite.com/cat-71.htm?review=4029">ReadersFavorite.com</a></div></div>