For the sake of anonymity, you can pretty much assume all the names have been changed, or at least altered slightly. Anyway, this is my first blog entry here at SoulCast and I'm going to plunge into it:

I'm 19 years old and I've known Amy since I was 13; I'm pretty sure I love her. But here's the tragic part: I'm a college student in the American South and this girl's a stripper who lives over 100 miles away from me. She's a lovely girl who dropped out of high school less than three months away from graduation in order to work and I worry about her.

Maybe it's misplaced machismo, but I want only good things for Amy. For the past few days, I've been in my old hometown because of the Christmas break, and me and her have met up a few times and gotten high and talked. We seem to get along like the best of friends, and then I start to hate myself.

She's a stripper planning to do porn. I try not to be judgmental, but it seems just a bit frightening to me. I know that I'm no much-traveled man-of-the-world, but I still am concerned for her. Can she handle this all by herself? Will she sign her rights away? Will she be taken advantage of? Am I an asshole for asking these questions? I don't know.