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| 20 | 131 | I had a clear View more quotes about identity">identity. |
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| 20 | 128 | I enjoyed the smell of the salt water, the sight of the soaring harbor gulls. |
| 20 | 129 | I wore a collar, and was clad for the pleasure of men. |
| 20 | 130 | But I was not unhappy. |
| 20 | 131 | I had a clear identity. |
| 20 | 132 | No longer was my life empty. |
| 20 | 133 | I knew now who I was, and what I was. |
| 20 | 134 | When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain, my hands before my body, separated by some twenty inches of light, gleaming chain; there are many things, clever, subtle exciting things a girl may do with such a chain; some of these were shown to me, and others I invented, sharing them with other girls at the tavern; girls struggle to become ever more perfect, and beautiful, in their slavery; girls often share slave secrets; I struggled hard to learn all that I could, to become more pleasing to masters; something in me, you see, was not at all displeased to belong to men; at one time such a thought would have horrified me, and I would have thrust it wildly from my consciousness, not daring to regard it; now I entertained it with a shameless pride; I had become a slave girl. |