grew up in the concrete jungle of South L.A., where she dealt drugs and saw her foster brother shot to death in front of their house.
It’s a sad and all-too-common tale.  By lying to us, she’s deprived us of the essential truth of her story.ÂÂ
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In light of that, I’ve decided not to screw her. Geez. I expect a little more integrity in my whores.
Well, everyone expects hookers to have street cred. You don’t get that with a silver-spoon upbringing in the Valley. I’m betting she watched a lot of “Hill Street Blues” reruns.
Hey, you know what paradise is?
It’s a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we’d like them to be…
But you know what truth is?
It’s that little baby you’re holding, it’s that man you fought with this morning…
The same one you’re going to make love with tonight
That’s truth, that’s love…
I knew that ‘pit bull tattoo’ line was a bit much.
Now a scar, that’s more like it.
Hmmmm.
She’s a whore. People actually expect her to tell the truth?
Weren’t the characters in her memoir about growing up a foster child in South Los Angeles, “Love and Consequences,” just a little too archetypal to be true?
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Yet Seltzer’s unmasking is more sad than infuriating. Her fictional self was so inspirational because hers was a tale so seldom told.
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That’s a story we’d still very much like to hear — only next time from someone who actually lived it…
I would very much like to hear from someone who can write a 500 word essay and not forget by the end the initial premise.
Living in a 10k a month condo. I suspect she’s not quite the victim the libs want her to be.
“Yet Seltzer’s unmasking is more sad than infuriating. Her fictional self was so inspirational because hers was a tale so seldom told.”
Seldom told because it wasn’t true. But she told them exactly what you wanted to hear, so why are they so upset?
The Rather-line of “false-but-true” in this story reminds me of the South Park episode on Mormonism. “I don’t care if it’s not true, it makes my family love each other”, the cartoon character said. Yep, that our media, concerned with their narcissicism and emotional unity; to hell with the truth. The “news” department and “entertainment” department have gotten their roles reversed. Entertainment has gone from fantasy tv, to reality tv, to scripted-reality programming. News shows need a veracity-rating system with color-coding for editorial bias. I suggest terms like BS, total BS, Clintonian, Ratherian, etc. to express the quality of the reporting.