Sometimes, it's easy for clients to become jaded about seeing escorts. It's easy for them to make cynical comments about how all escorts are just using them, or that we're all shallow shopping junkies. It's sad, really, because inside of every cynic there's a disappointed optimist. I thought I'd try to write something that might allow the hidden optimist to come out of hiding, even if just for a few minutes.

I want to tell you about my friend and duo partner, Pixie. Pixie spent the last few years working as an escort while she put herself through school. Yes, really - there really are some escorts who work to support their schooling, and she's really one of them.

Pixie finished her degree in an obscure field that I still can't claim to really understand, no matter how many times she's explained it to me. I do know that it's not a field that will ever pay her well, or make her famous, or even let her live what most people would consider a comfortable life.

In a few months, Pixie is going to get on a plane and travel to a country that none of us could ever consider going to. It's a country that has been torn about by famine and war and politics, and that doesn't have much hope left in it. It's that place you see a sixty second clip of on the evening news, and think "someone should do something". Luckily for us, there are people like Pixie, who volunteer to give up their entire lives for two years, for free, just so that they can do more than feel bad about how much suffering there is in the world.

If there is a point to all of this, it is that someone reading this right now probably saw Pixie over the last two years. You saw her, and hopefully you liked her, and you paid her your money, and you went on your way. In that one small thing, you created a ripple effect - a ripple that ended with her getting on a plane with just one carry on bag, and traveling around the world. Because of that envelope, someone in the world will suffer a little less, because Pixie is there.

So, the next time you turn on the news and see that sixty second clip of people starving in a country that has been destroyed, look for that quick flash of a volunteer handing out aid. Maybe you'll see her there, and maybe you'll feel a little better about yourself, too.

And now, since you know there had to be a catch to all of this niceness, I'd like to mention that the friends of Pixie are trying to raise her a small amount of money before she leaves. She can't risk working anymore - ironically, she had to have a morals check before she'd be accepted to volunteer, for free, in a place where morals and ethics seem to be a forgotten concept. So, if you'd like to help her, you can email me, and I'll tell you how. I should also add that she doesn't know I'm writing this, and she *definitely* doesn't know I'm asking people for their help.

She's much too nice to ever do such a thing herself.

Morgan

ps: edited because I can't believe I was stupid enough to misspell 'envelope'...


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