To Vegas and Back

This story begins with a twenty-six-year-old woman living the American dream in the 1960s. She was a homemaker and mother of three in the beautiful suburbs of Philadelphia. At thirty-two she gets a divorce, and trades in brownies and carpools for pasties and feathers as a Showgirl in Las Vegas. In a nutshell, this woman leaves her husband in 1972, is swooped up by a rich man who wants to make her a showgirl. He moves her to Vegas and upon arrival, he disappears. She then meets a Vegas mobster who introduces her into the underground workings of Vegas casinos. She then secures a position in the Les Folies Bergere at the Tropicana and becomes one of the most sought after showgirls of her time. Finally, this woman meets a man who wants to marry her and take in her children---a man who nearly destroys their family with violence, alcohol and abuse over the course of six years.

The author can tell this story, because this woman is her mother.