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Minka Kelly's memoir Tell Me Everything tells a story of triumph over adversity and how resilience and love are all we have in the end. She was raised by a single mother and struggled with addiction, living in strange apartments and storage units. Now an established actress and philanthropist, she is taking this next step in her career as a writer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: May 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9783755442189

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THE BIG EYE

The Big Eye is a low-slung stucco building in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is crowded with porn-watching cubicles, adult toys, and DVDs. The back half of the building features a pair of peep show stages with individual booths for customers to watch live girls perform for tokens and tips. The narrator, Lydia Gonzalez, is seventeen and frightened, but the manager gives her the once-over to make sure her tits are big enough to hold attention. She will go to high school during the day and come here in the evening.

Rudy is turning into an asshole and his father offers to cosign an apartment for Mija. Mija decides to take a job at a peep show as her way out of jail. Three nights later, she enters the Big Eye, which is built in the shape of a large rectangle split in half by the dressing room. The peep show is built in the shape of a large rectangle split in half by the dressing room, with a stage fronted by half a dozen booths and two girls working the adjoining stages at once. Mija is nervous but determined and wears a long-sleeve, white stretchy lace top, lacy bra, matching lace pants with bell bottoms, accentuating the G-string.

Mom's stripper costumes are passed down to her from the time she was young. The narrator's mother's looks and ability to attract men are the only source of power they have to share with the narrator. The narrator has taken her stage name, Frankie, and is considering a job at a peep show, where customers won't be able to touch the narrator. The narrator is looking for an ally or guidance, and Tina, their coworker, is also getting ready. The narrator is tired of feeling alone and is looking for an ally or guidance.

The narrator is on their own at a peep show, where they have to be alluring and give a taste of something soft they can't have. They are tense and waiting for their first client, who inserts a token and a red light comes on over their stage. Tina's red light is lit like a lurid Christmas tree and the customers all seem to want Tina. When the divider rises, the narrator faces a man wearing a soiled backward ball cap and unbuttoned jeans. He stares at the narrator expectantly, waiting for the narrator to show him their body.

The narrator is trying to seduce a man into wanting more time with them, but they are not practiced at the moves and there is no other dancer to watch. When they reach up to undo the knot holding their flimsy top in place, the divider between them slams shut, giving them a reprieve. However, regret smacks them hard across the face, as they have lost their first client. The narrator is struggling to make money in a bar, but they are resilient and hardworking. The night they were there with Rudy, a dancer, the narrator was surprised to see a girl in the room.

She seemed friendly and protective, but the narrator stopped watching her because of the pile of hundreds she had displayed on a chair. The narrator's eyes are the most important thing from the night, as they ask the narrator what they are doing here.

Part I

Part I

Mom’s Beloved Bag Lady Sketch

Mom gushed and hugged her arms close to her chest as if she needed to keep the joy from bursting through her body. Tonight, she was excited about the Top Ramen she was making for dinner and the evening that would follow. Her enthusiasm was always dialed up to ten and she found childlike eagerness for the smallest goodness. She loved to say yes to everything and was like a two-year-old who could mine from even the most mundane activity an extravagant level of glee. They lived in the storage room of an apartment complex where they had once had their own unit.

Maureen, the narrator's mother, is seen in a 125-square-foot box with Christmas lights and a bright mood. She prepares dinner and takes the narrator by the hand to the club, where everyone loves her. Maureen's attention is a beam of warm light, making people feel as if they are the most important person in the world. She greets and air-kisses the DJ and bartenders, then settles in the backstage dressing room. The narrator is a young woman in their twenties and early thirties who is