urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:breakring My meandering thoughts breakring 2007-10-22T20:59:54Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:breakring:750 2007-10-22T20:59:54Z 2007-10-22T20:59:54Z I saw something horrible today.<br /><br />Have you ever seen the "before and after" &nbsp;photos the anti-drug crowd uses to show you how drugs are bad for you.&nbsp; They typically start with a high school yearbook photo or the booking photo for the first arrest and then they move on to a later photo some months or years later whioch shows a noticeable decline in physical appearance.<br /><br />This morning ion North Las Vegas, I had my own "before and after experience."<br /><br />Maly (name misspelled on purpose) was a client a dealt with early on.&nbsp; She was very attractive physically.&nbsp; A working prostitute of Hawaiin extraction, with long blond hair (probably dyed) and a lightly chocolate skin.&nbsp; She was obviously involved with drugs, probably Meth and eventaully I lost patience with her flakiness in terms of making office appointmentsa or court dates, so I dropped her as a client.&nbsp;<br /><br />This morning I saw her in court.&nbsp; I walked right by her without noticing her and went back to talk to Joey, the judge's assistant and a friend.&nbsp; As I was sitting talking to Joey (about her new marriage and other social stuff) one of the jailers came in and asked me to help calm down a prisoner who was making a fuss and clamoring for me.<br /><br />When I went in it was Maly.&nbsp; Her hair was falling out in clumps, her skin was covered in lesions, her face looked like a beat up old saddlebag and she had lost several pounds and now had no breasts and looked like a walking corpse.<br /><br />It was the worst "before and after" I have ever seen and, frankly, I am glad I dropped her and can say I hadf no part in the decline I saw.<br /><br />It will still bother me for some time to come