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20/20: Ashley Dupre, the girl next door

In an exclusive Diane Sawyer interview, we're told that Spitzer's call girl is just like us.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Saturday, November 22, 2008 09:54 AM

    Necessary but not sufficient?

    I was going to comment on the fact that it seems every prostitute has to be portrayed as emotionally scarred somehow. Can't a well-adjusted (whatever that is) person become a prostitute too?

    But now I think of it in a different way. Maybe the rule that our personal traumas determine our career choices is universal. Therefore I'd like to see in-depth reporting on how people's emotional development causes them to become garbage men and data-entry specialists. Why should prostitutes get all the press?

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