He helped me build up my clientele, and I helped him by flirting with guys behind the bar while I clumsily (and poorly) mixed their drinks.
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Replying to @BringMeTheAx
And danced during select times. Bobby's bar got busted for some stupid violation one night and he died from complications from .........
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THAT disease a few years later - bankrupt and with only a few of us around him. Bobby helped me as a homeless runaway... He gave me a place.
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A safe place, because my home wasn't one. The point, in Mikey's long story, is Bobby would be considered a trafficker today.
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A guy who I held affection for, who helped me recover from a shit family situation, who helped me get my life together - he'd be a "perp."
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He would be charged as trafficking me even though I made every decision myself - he just gave me a safe space in which to do it.
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I'm not sure I have a grand summary here, except force, fraud, and coercion need to be the sole arbiters of trafficking.
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Scope creep - someone helping someone else do what s/he *wants* to do, should never be considered trafficking.
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Bobby, with his one knowing wink that said "I know what you're doing" would be arrested under the current framework. Yet Bobby saved me.
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So this is a tribute to him, and what he would have said to overzealous trafficking laws: FAWK YU I'LL CLOSE THEN!pic.twitter.com/C8xihNAkX6
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Cheers. @aspasia_projectpic.twitter.com/o8NaRQ4itW
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