"Tonya" - a blast from the past
From 1990 to 1992 I regularly hooked up with a girl whose street name was "Tonya. " She worked in the massage parlor in the back part of the building on the south-east corner of Washington & Park (there was Johnny's Adult World and a strip bar which I think was named Trio's in the front of the building. There's a Chinese take-out place now in the spot where Johnny's used to be).
If business wasn't good at the massage parlor, she'd work Washington Street once she got off around midnight. Once I got to know her, I would arrange to pick her up from work once her shift ended. Much safer than picking her up on a street corner. Light-skinned black girl, slender (both naturally and from doing cocaine) but with a nice butt, mid-20's, very pleasant and fun to be with. She came to my apartment a few times and I never had any problems. She endured a tragedy when one of her many sisters was brutally murdered (1992), I remember going to the funeral.
Eventually lost touch with her. So I was pleasantly surprised to see her in a photo in the [I]Hartford Courant[/I] earlier this week, identified under her real name, comforting a friend whose daughter had been murdered. Tonya must be 50 or close to it by now, but still looks pretty good, considering everything. I wonder if she's still available?