Strip-Tease Louise
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
United States
October 11, 2016 8:34pm CST
No one knew where she came from. People gossiped about her and her life but no one ever knew for sure. They knew that she was a stripper for sure. They knew she lived somewhere, or maybe she was homeless.
I knew for sure she must be lonely and that she had an awful life story.
I first noticed her when she showed up in the mall. She wore a green prom dress and hiking boots. Her hair was a hot mess piled on top of her head and falling to the sides. They were wigs. She was almost bald. She swished and swayed. We all laughed. I heard people laughing everywhere she went.
I quickly found out that her name was strip-tease Louise. She washed up in the mall restroom. If someone tried to talk to her, she started removing some of her clothing. Not many people tried.
Louise haunted the mall in the afternoons. No one knew where she went at night.
One day, she did not show up. Days, weeks, and months went by and people forgot about her. I remember. I wish I had done something to be a friend to her. I don't know whether it would make a difference or not.
How do you think I could have been a friend to her? Would you have tried? Do you know any strange, lonely people?
Strip-tease Louise, I hope you found happiness.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
12 Oct 16
I guess you will never know. You may have been able to help her but then again she may not have wanted a friend. I would have talked to her or smiled when she passed just to let her know I cared. I hope wherever she is that she is safe and that she found the help and happiness that she deserved.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
12 Oct 16
@Happy2BeMe That is what I would guess.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
12 Oct 16
@akalinus probably not. I am sure her life was never an easy one, probably from a very young age.
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@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
12 Oct 16
You wrote that so well. It says so much! You made her real. To many she is not a real person and won't be remembered.
I met someone that wore radioactive clothes. She told me the backseat of police car was a place to be raped. It was difficult to know fact from fiction or if she knew the difference. I couldn't help. I've volunteered as a non-professional in the health field and from what I've learned some can be helped and there are also unsuccessful endings.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
12 Oct 16
It seems obvious she wanted to be alone so I don't know what you could have done to befriend her. Hopefully she got the help she obviously needed.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
12 Oct 16
@akalinus Obviously she had mental issues and that would have made getting through to her difficult. I am guessing she stripped in front of the wrong person and was put away.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
13 Oct 16
@BelleStarr That could be. I know she was not playing with a full deck.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
6 Apr 17
Wow, she seems such a vibrant character - was she fiction or real?
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
12 Oct 16
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I attract strange lonely people.
I must be like a magnet for them.
I met one that sounds a bit like the girl in the post and she took her clothes off in my motorbike shop.
Giselle her name. An Irish lady. Blonde and buxom and with some mental health issues.
She was trying on ladies bike gear in tbe changing room. I thought that she would stay in there. I was serving another customer when she came running up to the ccounter with only a jacket and some very skimpy panties on. Didnt look the cleanest.
So i am standing serving this guy when sbe opens the jacket and flashes and says what do you think of these.
The customer looked her up and down and walked out the door.
I told her to get dressed and get out.
Just as she was putting her jeans back on a couple of young bikers came in.
One of them left with her.
Some bikers will do anything.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
13 Oct 16
@saulgoodman Since you asked, I will. Thanks!
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@saulgoodman (2643)
• Dundee, Scotland
13 Oct 16
@akalinus
Sad indeed.
Please do write about this other incident.
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@ms1864 (6882)
• Bangalore, India
12 Oct 16
I have tried to befriend lonely people...but i have found it to be a little risky...since they then attach all hopes and companionship on you. It becomes a little too much sometimes.
We try yo be nice...but become the air they need to be able to breath. It becomes a responsibility.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
12 Oct 16
There is a difference between being there for someone when they need it and someone depending on you for everything. I dumped a friend who was calling day and night.
I felt sad about it but I had problems, too, She was always in the middle of drama and I just could not cope with it. Maybe, that makes me bad. I don't know.
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