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Whoring runs in the family. First Lucia is the whore. Then her daughter Violet becomes a whore. Then her daughter Flora becomes a whore. It seems to run in the family. Could there be a genetic predisposition to spreading your legs to the world?

 

Chinese names have meanings. Chinese people have weird names like Loyalty and Perpetual. Imagine if Americans had names like "Good Looking" or "Smelly".

 

Some people think being white is superior to being Chinese. Violet vomited when she found out she was half Chinese. Some people think it is better to be white.

 

Whores don't like being treated like whores. Violet suffers from Julia Roberts/Pretty Woman syndrome; she is a whore who doesn't like being treated like a whore. She acts like a wife to Loyalty when she is only his whore, and is enraged when he bones other women, which makes no sense.

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Chinese people find whores who read poetry to be very sexy. We are told repeatedly that Violet's customers get sexually aroused when she reads poetry. Evidently good rhythm in a stanza is more important than good rhythm in the bedroom. Not.

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