After Decades On The Streets, An NYC Prostitute Contemplates Retirement

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52 year old prostitute Barbara Terry
52 year old prostitute Barbara Terry

It's not often that you hear the details of a career lived on the streets, let alone by someone who raised a family from the money she earned working them.

But Barbara Terry supplied them for an article in The New York Times. Trained to be a medical lab technician, by age 21 Terry's husband had left, leaving her with children to support.

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