193. “Hi, Honey,” he says.

“Welcome home.”
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192. When the girl comes to,

she finds herself in a musty hotel room, tied to a bed, the man gazing down at her.
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191. One night, after her show,

the girl is surprised by two thugs, who bound and gag her.
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190. The detective, an expert

in uncovering missing persons in underworld places, finds the girl and arranges for her kidnapping.
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189. The man, now a numbers runner

and making good money, decided to hire a detective to find the girl.
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188. The girl’s parents gave her up

for dead and decided to raise baby Scarlett as their own.
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187. For over a year, the girl

worked at a club called “The Stardust,” where her showgirl gig involved a red feather boa, pasties, and a thong.
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186. At the Sands, the girl met

an up and coming comedian (you would recognize his name) and got a gig as a showgirl.
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185. When the girl discovered

that the Greek man expected her to perform in adult movies, she ran away and hitched a ride to Las Vegas.
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184. The Greek took the girl to Hollywood,

where he had some connections with the “movie” industry.
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183. Maybe she married the Greek,

and maybe she didn’t, but she left the baby behind with her parents and two flummoxed boyfriends.
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182. Long before the term

“It’s complicated” became such a cliche, the girl ran away with yet a third man, a 45-year-old Greek immigrant.
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181. The girl had another boyfriend,

yet she was still drawn to the man like a moth to flame.
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179. However, the man was now living

with his ex-wife, who knew nothing about the baby.
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178. The man came back to town

to claim the girl, now the mother of a baby girl, who decided, against all prevailing opinion, to keep the child.
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177. Like all good plans, however,

this one would go awry.
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176. The plan: the girl would have

the child and give it up for adoption.
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175. Pregnant girl and slightly wounded

Snowball (the girl refused to budge without the dog) would accompany her parents back home.
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174. So a deal was reached

among the girl’s parents, the man, and the Las Vegas police--one officer, actually.
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173. The gun, in fact, was wielded

against the girl. “Take the little bitch back,” the man told her parents.
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