Word: balliet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Better credentials would certainly add tighter tone. Still, there is no doubt that massage has shed its shady image, even deep in the Bible Belt South. Five years ago, when Therapist Michele Marie Balliet arrived in Murfreesboro, Tenn., "they pictured the places beside I-40 that say MASSAGE," she recalls. Today, though, it seems as if the whole town is beating a path to her table. Not just the doctors, lawyers and bankers, but the factory workers, farmers and handicrafters. Balliet takes cash for her services but occasionally accepts other down-home forms of payment: six dozen eggs, handwoven baskets...