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Chapter One

Poppy

Pulling the headphones off, I rolled ress wheel of the podcast, hoping it would go updozens ofthat hen the video was an hour or so late

With success came a lot of demands, it seemed

I'd started the podcast, and the video recordings that ith it to upload to Youtube, only a year ago on a whiured I would meet some cool people, would maybe even help find so so

I never really expected actual success

And for a few otten a handful of views, a fe social ynistic comments

Then, well, I don't knohat happened So me, and it all spiraled from there

I had a million followers on my Youtube channel alone And more podcast listens than I even kept track of anymore

All I kneas, it was garnering enough of an income that it allowedand research full-time

I couldn't have been ood bartender I guess when you've watched one too many shows that started with a woman at a bar and a man with bad intentions, it put your creep-detector on overdrive

I'd had pretty liberal bosses—ones I later found out were actual, legit loan sharks—but even they couldn't keep looking the other hen I accused at least twosexual predators without any real evidence aside frout instincts Then there was that one ti he would meet me in the bathroom the next time I went for "some fun"