Looking back at the two photographs of Long and Sau brought back a flood of memories. I have met perhaps hundreds of ladies working the bars as these two did and there are a common thread through most of their lives. They most often come from a poor rural family and have little education, they often financially support family members and children and they become more and more jaded as time passes. Many times a girl working the bar will start out with a kind heart and trusting nature but through the years she will come to distrust most men and often become addicted to various drugs (nicotine, alcohol and the harder stuff).
Sau and Long fit into these categories, both worked the same short time bar and both had the same tired worn out look to them. Night after night of drinking and selling their bodies had destroyed an innocence they once held. They were both polite to me and kind people but their was also a tired worn down nature to them. Long especially just seemed to not really care to much about anything anymore.
