Part of the stripper game is going on the road, milking money from a fresh crop of guys when the locals grow tired. If they were going to make good money in some upscale club, Zola was in \u2014 but her boyfriend, Sean King, was out. Sean, a tall, mellow 20-year-old who works as a loan processor at a mortgage company, had known her since sixth grade. Her dancing didn\u2019t make him jealous, but he was hoping she\u2019d stop. He also didn\u2019t like the idea of her road tripping with a stranger. \u201CYou don\u2019t really know her,\u201D he said. \u201CYou just met her.\u201D
Three years earlier, when Jessica was 18, she began stripping at a club in Detroit. One night, a customer beckoned her over for a lap dance. By the time the next song started and she turned to face him, he had taken down his pants and pulled her on top of him. He raped her then walked out the door. Jessica had dealt with her share of misfortune. She\u2019d been born to a 15-year-old mother, and raised in what she describes as a troubled home, surrounded by drugs and alcohol. \u201CI was bouncing from abusive relationship to abusive relationship,\u201D she says. But when she left the club after being raped, she says she finally found a man who seemed to have her best interests at heart: Rudy. \u201CHe sat with me the entire night while I was crying,\u201D she says.
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