Tag: Malcolm Smith

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If a girl would learn about Life, à la gossip columnist, there is no better place than a beauty salon catering to the carriage trade, where idle women bare their souls and their friends’ secrets.
Frances Parker was fascinated by her customers and their sinful doings. Of course. she herself was holding out for marriage — until the day a client told Frances of her newest lover and Frances recognized a description of her fiancé. After that she decided she might as well emulate the women she found so intriguing, and accept the offers of rich young men who were flatteringly eager to make a playgirl out of a working girl, and pay her for it.

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To Lois Robeson, sex freedom was perfectly normal. Her mother had gone through several love affairs and so Lois was quite familiar with the art of love. It was something she could take in her stride. What she preferred was to take refuge in books and daydreams. It was only natural, therefore., that she should become a writer; only natural that she should give herself to any man she found attractive. And only natural also that she should become disillusioned and heartbroken because of the demands of her body’s passions.

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