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Last night I met a stripper who was a 2AMer victim

dtek

Actually, it was a 1:53AMer three months ago at Heat. Here's the news story: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index…

I was sitting at the bar of a club last night when a group comes in, two of whom are obviously strippers out for a night on the town. One of the dancers ends up on the bar stool next to me and we strike up a conversation. I'm pretty sure I've seen her somewhere before so I ask where she worked when she was dancing. Eventually it comes out that she was one of the shooting victims at Heat back in November 2015. Lost her spleen due to the shooting.

I asked her if she had gone back to dancing and she said no one would hire her because she'd put on weight while recovering and because of her scars. Now this girl has a few extra pounds, but I could tell she had been a looker before putting on the weight and I've seen MUCH heavier girls working in the divier clubs of Portland. Heat is a real shit hole, so I know she was (at least before the shooting) willing to work in lesser clubs.

We talked some more and eventually she admitted that she just didn't want to deal with the attention the scars would bring. They opened her up sternum to pubis to repair the bullet damage. She showed me the scar, which wasn't bad but would be difficult to hide as a nude dancer.

Anyway, that's my closest brush with a 2AMer. I hope never to get closer. Anybody else have first or second hand experience with this sort of thing?