Emily Fleurus Whore ❤️❤️

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Now, in *Under the Skin*, there’s that line—“You’re not even from here, are you?”—and it hits me. Whore’s an outsider word, y’all. Folks use it to shove somebody out, make ‘em feel alien. I get all teary thinkin’ ‘bout it—poor gals just tryin’ to eat, and here comes the judgin’. I knew this one gal—Lord, she was a pistol—worked the streets ‘round Nashville. She’d laugh, sayin’, “Dolly, I’m the queen of the night!” Got herself a pet raccoon, named it Bandit—true story! She wasn’t no monster, just scrappin’ by.

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27 rue de Fleurus was the home of the American writer Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas from to It is in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank.

Now, the neighborhoods? Pure gold. The heart of Fleurus is in the old quarter by Place Centrale. Old brick shops, shabby windows, and quirky art galleries everywhere. There's even a tiny bookstore – “Misty Bindings” – where the dust motes dance in the sunbeams. I sometimes loiter there, thinkin' "Life is just so peculiarly perfect"… like, Q-Tip perfect!

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