The Stone Hookers
By Carol Major
Two years before I ever heard about stone hookers stealing a place away, my mother and I had already been back and forth to Niagara Falls five times looking for the American. That was nineteen fifty-eight. She’d put on her red cherry sundress even on the days it turned cold.
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