Word: heroines
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...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...
...life of $10 silk underwear and shiny Lincolns, insisted that "the only two vices I've got are good clothes and a beautiful home." Out & in & out of jail since 1940, a terrified Waxey was nabbed last August in Manhattan with a pound ($200,000 worth) of heroin. "Kill me! Let me run and then shoot me!" he sobbed, on his knees. "This is the end of the line...
After a while, Amy had something more to lie about. "I blew up joints for more'n a year before I ever fixed. Fixed is jolting, you know-taking a shot of H in the main line. H is heroin...
...summer again, Jocelyn had been sent off to Women's Prison, and Amy had a new girl friend, Hortense. The two girls dropped in on friends who were having a heroin party. "We said we didn't want to jolt, but . . . you know how it is when a lot of kids are around; they all started to laugh ... I didn't have the money to buy a cap [shot] with. Danny said he'd give me one; he said it real quick. That's what they always do, any hype that wants...
...still only 16 when, by threats and cajolery, she won her parents' reluctant permission to marry Eddie Neale, who was all of 21 and a confirmed narcotics addict. Their routine was to spend $25 for a half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...