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Valentine Show at the Lingerie Shop
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.:. Valentine Show at the Lingerie Shop 48 You adore this day dead-center of the worst month of winter given over to the heart. To roses, chocolates, to these tokens of affection. An outrageous redhead and a blonde parade expensive intimates before the husbands nudging one another, crotches itching as they shift in their seats and whisper. Classy, this show. Sex dressed up nice, not undressing. You still remember the very sleazy barker outside Topless Bottomless on Bourbon Street. He pulled the door open and breathed at you, passing by slowly getting your eyeful: some stripper bumping her snatch at the faces staring up from around a tiny table trashed with weak drinks, cigarettes, dollar tips. No cover, no minimum he rasped in your hot ear and you knew he meant your life was empty without the nasty times ahead inside. The pasties and g-string gone. Topless, bottomless, the wild night down to nothing. Down to the last black hour when the heart breaks. But you know all that is past, won't be back, so don't drift off. It's February and maybe this next bit of red and black lace and silk on the chilly body of the blonde is it, the gift you came here on this cold night looking for. 49 ...