208. “Where’ve you been?” your daddy asks

in his Bad Daddy voice.
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207. As much as you might try,

you can’t squeeze beneath the sofa. Instead, you shove the chewed matchbook into a tuck in the back of the sofa.
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206. Mommy comes home. You can tell

because she smells like beer and cigarettes.
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205. “Scarly! Where are you?”

your daddy yells.
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204. CRASH! But the window doesn’t break.

You try squeezing underneath the sofa.
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203. “SON OF A BITCH!” bellows your daddy.

He tosses the ashtray and an empty beer can at a window.
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202. You don’t know why you’re hiding,

except that match heads taste pretty good, and your daddy can’t find anything to light his cigarette.
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201. You are two years old and living

in Las Vegas. You remember eating a book of matches, while hiding behind a sofa.
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198. The man took girl, child,

and dog back to Las Vegas.
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197. The girl’s parents fought

for the child through the courts, but to no avail.
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196. They went to the girl’s parents

and demanded both Scarlett and Snowball.
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195. In fact, the girl was so turned on

by the man’s tenacity that she took up with him again.
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194. You would think that the girl

would be frightened, but you would be wrong.
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193. “Hi, Honey,” he says.

“Welcome home.”
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192. When the girl comes to,

she finds herself in a musty hotel room, tied to a bed, the man gazing down at her.
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191. One night, after her show,

the girl is surprised by two thugs, who bound and gag her.
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190. The detective, an expert

in uncovering missing persons in underworld places, finds the girl and arranges for her kidnapping.
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189. The man, now a numbers runner

and making good money, decided to hire a detective to find the girl.
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188. The girl’s parents gave her up

for dead and decided to raise baby Scarlett as their own.
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187. For over a year, the girl

worked at a club called “The Stardust,” where her showgirl gig involved a red feather boa, pasties, and a thong.
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186. At the Sands, the girl met

an up and coming comedian (you would recognize his name) and got a gig as a showgirl.
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185. When the girl discovered

that the Greek man expected her to perform in adult movies, she ran away and hitched a ride to Las Vegas.
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184. The Greek took the girl to Hollywood,

where he had some connections with the “movie” industry.
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183. Maybe she married the Greek,

and maybe she didn’t, but she left the baby behind with her parents and two flummoxed boyfriends.
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182. Long before the term

“It’s complicated” became such a cliche, the girl ran away with yet a third man, a 45-year-old Greek immigrant.
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