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Compilation of Escorts and Clients by D.E.Z. Butler

About the clients and escorts who once were part of Professional Escorts of Marin County, California. The timeframe was from 1974 until 1990. You will enjoy the easy to read book that gives a glimpse into escorting. Enjoy the read.  
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  Rachel Van Meers

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Rachel has been a maid, a hat check girl, an electronics assembler, and an assistant apartment manager, in Belgium, Amsterdam, and the United States. Now retired, she lives in Oregon and is the matriarch of her family.


Background Information

Rachel Van Meers was born in a home for unwed mothers in the city of Ghent Belgium, in 1930. Raised in the Flemish working-class by her strict grandmother, two aunts, and three uncles, Rachel recounts her struggles growing up a bastard in Belgium during the Great Depression. When the war broke out, Belgium was quickly taken over by Germany, and the people were left to fend for themselves against the overwhelming occupying forces and shattering Allied air strikes. Rachel's family remained loyal to Belgium, but her mother joined the SS. When a violent argument erupted between Rachel and her Nazi-sympathizing stepfather, she was sent to a child labor camp in Germany and later returned to witness Belgium in tatters after the war. Now a strong spirited young woman, she refused to go the way of her mother, or give in to the brutal attacks of her stepfather. She was eventually able to sustain her independence from her family and emigrate to America in 1961.

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Ghent,  Belgium