Please come in," Roberta said. She brought the woman into the living room to see me."Ahh hello Angela! So nice to see you, again. How have you been?" ... asked the woman visitor."Ohh, Master! It's just been awful! Mark and I have split up and I don't know what I'm going to do!" she said, stepping into my arms as I held her sobbing on my shoulder."Oh dear! Come sit down and tell me what happened." I looked at Roberta, "Bring us all a glass of wine, won't you?" I told her."So is she your latest?". Vanessa, a part-time escort in southern England, finds that weeks can go by without her phone ringing. Men see buying sex as a luxury, she says, and with the price of necessities rising it is one they are cutting back on. Even when she offers discounts to whip up interest, clients are scarcer than they were. In places where the job market slumped, the effect is more marked (whether prostitution is legal may affect prices, too, but the wide variation between American cities shows that this is. You might want to run it by Myrna when you tell her about it later. Speaking of later, I feel like I haven't eaten for hours. Let's go out and remind the women the men are hungry and they need to cook some food."He was laughing as we got up and looked over his shoulder at me as we went out the door saying; "Good luck with that one."When we got to the kitchen, it was like we had stepped into the middle of a hen party. Myrna was waving her arms, and Kat and Sally were laughing up a storm. I. I think I would have preferred death."I don't want you to make up your mind until I'm done."Make up my mind? I had a choice?"I know you're not going to want to, but..."Not want to? Was this about Ashley's cherry?"It's my dad." That asshole!" My first words since I'd come in, and I called Tami's dad an asshole."Yeah, that asshole," Tami agreed with a tight smile."Is he bothering you and your mom again?" The D.A. had let him go back to Colorado until his trial."No, it's not that. It's..." Tami.