## JAMES PATTERSON

- D: How many times would you say you went?

- V: Hundreds. Hundreds. I was-] -he used to tell me I was his favorite. He bought me a car. He bought me―

- D: This Jeep that you're driving?

- V: No. I had a brand-new Dodge Neon. I got a plane-I got a plane ticket to New York; I got spending money whenever I wanted. Like, I was in there deep. I was-he asked my par- ents to emancipate me so I could live with him. Or he didn't ask my parents, he asked me to ask my parents, I'm sorry. He actually wanted me to come live with him.

	- D: As, like, a girlfriend?

	- V: Sex slave, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. Um, but it escalated-he, he just increased my pay, as long as he could touch me. I wouldn't let him put anything inside of me. And then one day he just did, one day he just put his hand, like, his fingers and, um...

	- D: How long, would you say, from the very first time you went? V: Months. Honestly, I never kept track, like, of, of what happened when. I just can tell you in which order things progressed.

It was it was, like, towards the middle and end of my school year. But I remember that for the last, like, six or eight weeks of high school, I didn't have a car 'cause I gave it back to him. Because he-he asked me to have sex with him and, like, like suck him and stuff [giggles], and I was just like, no. Definitely not. I was like, "I'll let you touch me, but I'm not gonna do that."

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