MATTIE SILKS LENT STYLE TO THE WORLD’S OLDEST PROFESSION.
Just the sound of her name draws a mental picture: MATTIE SILKS.
No plain, dowdy woman in a calico dress would ever wear such a name; no girl with prim schoolmarm glasses or neck-strangling high collars would answer to it.
Mattie Silks may have dressed like a Victorian matriarch, but she was a successful bordello madam who failed at only one
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