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April 3, 2012
batshit forever
Concluding this story
Just last week, I was doing that "Say, I wonder what ever happened to...?" thing that was invented about five minutes after the Internet was.
I'd often wondered about the fiery train-wreck that Laura's life was barreling toward. When last I saw her, she was a 30 year-old basket case, completely unhinged, a secretary and single-mother of a decidedly unfortunate son, in front of whom she stripped. Her friendships and relationships were pure carnage, and she had just begun anew in a state where the only people she knew were the treacherous fiancee and friend.
Not exactly a prescription for Happily Ever After.
Laura has an incredibly common name, so I didn't figure my odds of finding her were good. Bogus hits abounded. And when I saw a bunch of hits for a lawyer in Portland, I felt safe ignoring them.
Except that it's her.
Wha-wha-WHAT?
She's a highly rated attorney at a prestigious firm. That's pretty far from what I'd expected to find, which was Laura blowing herpetic pimps for crack.
"How on earth do you draw a line from where we left off to where she is now?" I asked an equally incredulous Dorkass.
I had to know. There's a story here—as Dorkass put it, "a Lifetime movie kind of story." How did she manage such a career change, so quickly? Did I witness her bottoming out? Was the whole Kristi/fiancee thing the bottom? Better yet, was I?
But really, the one thing I most want to know is this: was she on drugs then, or is she now?
So I wrote her. No, I didn't ask about the drugs. I just said hi.
And this woman—a towering legend in my life, a woman who told me she loved me shortly after flipping me her thong—politely asked me to remind her where I know her from.
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