Word: majoor
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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AMSTERDAM—In typically shameless Amsterdam style, the Prostitute Information Center is nestled just across the alley from Oude Kerk, one of the oldest churches in the city, in the heart of the Red Light District. I’ve come here to interview Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who runs the information center, for a sidebar in Let’s Go: Amsterdam 2004, but she’s a bit busy...
...couple comes in, their teenage daughter in tow, and buys a t-shirt. Majoor, gauntly cheekboned and businesslike, cups the phone between her ear and shoulder to take their money...
...next customer to the drop in center is unmistakably American, and by the accent probably Midwestern. His face is scrubbed to pinkness, his white hair combed over meticulously, and he laughs like an attack: nasal and whiny. Majoor sighs—the website is stubborn—and gets off the phone to take his question...