I knew she was 19, but she may have told them she was 21. If I said 19 when she told me 21, then it would be my fault she didn't get the money. So I answered “21.” She didn't get the money. But I told her it was her fault not mine, for lying to me about her age. I hurried to Western Union, to make sure they were going to give me my money back. They did, but then they never let me send money again. They put like a red flag on my name. I called a bunch of different numbers to see why I was blocked, and how I could get it lifted. I even found which offlce Mandi went to in Orlando to try to pick up the money. Someone told me when she went to pick up the money, the agents said it looked like she was being coerced. She was escorted by an older man, and she appeared to be under his control, and forced to act against her wishes. Western Union is pretty sketchy. I am sure it was not the first time they saw something like this, an old white guy sending money, to an old black guy with a little white girl on a leash. I deposited the money directly in her bank account. Then the next day I didn't see her, and I made a plan to kill both of them. I was going to call her from a fake number, to come to a fake address, on an empty street. And I was going to ride up on my motorcycle and shoot both of them through the glass. But then I remembered my other mission, to warn her that the guys she met would kill her, and to save her from them, until her brain had time to re-route and recover from her brain injury. That's how it works in young people, especially girls. It's like they get set back a few years. And then one day at age 25 or 26 the brain spontaneously re- routes and they wake up. She was a child. I just needed to reduce her time on the streets by increasing her time with me, and buy time for her to grow up. It was a long time before I saw her again. We spent the next month arguing in texts. I said “This guy is a clown, why don’t you leave him.” She said if I try he will shoot me. It is my understanding he became more violent with her at this time. He started sleeping on the couch with a gun where he could see both doors, and said if she tried to leave he would shoot her. I said I would come over there and shoot him right in the face, and nobody on Earth would care. She begged me not do anything, for fear he would shoot me too or shoot her whole family. I learned that she met him the previous year, when her previous pimp “Marvelous” from Apopka dumped her at the 7—11 on 79th Street and 7th Avenue in Miami for some reason, 250 miles from home with no money and no phone. The next guy who drove up, put her in his car and became her new pimp, Captain Primo. Some people have a romantic preconception of hookers and strippers as strong, independent women. As "sex workers" like they are salty longshoremen. Some people believe the myth of Mandi herself When the pimp slept on the couch where he could see both doors, it was to keep her from sneaking out with a backpack or something. It was to keep her from leaving. He locked her stuff up that was important to her, he kept the car keys. But he didn't need to watch the doors. All he needed was for Mandi to believe he would shoot her if she left. And it didn't even need to be true. She just had to have the idea in her head that it was true. And she did, even long after both me and her mom told her it was ridiculous because we saw the guy was a cowardly spazz. If you don’t know Mandi, you can become very confused taking too seriously what is in her head. A strong, independent woman is someone 30, 40, 50 years old. The demand for 20-year-old hookers is 20 times the demand for 40-year-old hookers. If 95% of the demand for female lawyers were for 20-year-olds, it wouldn’t be the same. 60-year-old guys have 1,000 times as much money as 20-year-old guys. So the few 40-year-old hookers that there is demand for, can make some money. But they have to look right, they have to have the right shape, they have to have social skills... they have to be strong and independent. 20-year-old girls it doesn't matter what they look like, they can make money just by taking their pants off. Girls on backpage are not your middle-class college peers. Each weekend I saw Mandi's ad go up on backpage, at 2:45 AM Friday night. I really could not stand the thought of her going into total strangers’ apartments, where it was just a matter of time until something bad happened, like getting arrested or strangled. I texted her “This makes no sense. Why are you taking a risk seeing total strangers for $250, when you can come have sex with someone you know, and I will pay you $500?” But he would not let her come see me.