She was 18 and beautiful. Young men chased her. Old men drooled. Middle-aged men bought her presents. She graduated from high school with a solid C-minus average. She read on a sixth-grade level. She had a limited vocabulary and no employable skills. She could type 10 words a minute using one finger on each hand. Photocopy machines hated her. E-mail was an enigma.
She had one skill. She pleased middle-aged men. They felt young in her presence. She knew, instinctively, what to say to make them happy. They in turn wanted only to make her happy.
Her one skill got her the job as Big Daddy's administrative assistant. She would get him coffee in the morning and buy him the morning papers. She rubbed his neck when he was tired and sharpened his pencils. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon she and Big Daddy would visit a local hotel. Big Daddy paid her twice the salary he paid his professional secretary. He also gave her a Mercedes Benz 500SL automobile and put the Mercedes title in her name. At age 18 she owned a $90,000 automobile and earned $110,000 a year. She lived comfortably in a two-bedroom apartment in Cambridge. She was happy and so was Big Daddy.
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