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Breaking My Silence
Confessions of a Rat Pack Party Girl and Sex Trade Survivor
Disarming and Painfully Revealing
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by Megan Edwards, Executive Editor of Living-Las-Vegas
I just finished reading this disarming and painfully revealing memoir of a high-end Vegas callgirl. I followed Jane McCormick, ably assisted by the writing talents of Patti Wicklund, through her childhood, which was marred by her stepfather’s horrible abuse. It’s difficult to read about a full-grown Marine molesting a three-year-old, and even more depressing to follow along as the sexual mistreatment continued over a period of years. Sadder yet is the point at which a young Jane finally blows the whistle, only to be faced with disbelief and further pain.
Happier is the spirit with which Jane faces life after a teen-age marriage and two fast-appearing babies. Determined to realize her “white picket fence” dreams even though her husband was a beer-drinking philanderer, she did everything within her power to make money. Armed with jaw-dropping good looks and not much else – she never even graduated from high school – Jane pursued opportunities that eventually resulted in a career most people learn about only through Hollywood movies. Swiftly moving through brief gigs as a cocktail waitress in Hollywood, she made her way to Las Vegas. Sin City in the early sixties was the perfect place for a knockout seventeen-year-old with fake ID to realize some serious cash, and “Baby Jane” made the most of it.
A Gripping Story...
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by Yvonne Mason "Author" (Port St Lucie, Fl.)
Jane MCCormick has laid her soul open for the world to see. In Breaking the Silence Ms. McCormick has taken a very bad experience in her life and shown the reader what not to do in order to survive. As a young girl she began a life of prostitution that in the end almost destroyed her.
She allowed herself to be with people which she knew nothing about, in places that were dangerous and in a mental and physical state which became life threatening.
An Educating Book
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by Martha A. Cheves (Charlotte, NC)
When I was a teenager I remember a girl who everyone called a prostitute. Of course my parents would never allowed me to go anywhere near her because of her reputation. But I always had questions in my mind about her and other girls like her. I've never really understood what would make someone even think about going into this "profession." What in their childhood made them capable of selling themselves to pleasure men? Did they grow up with a low opinion of themselves? Were they abused as a child? Were they looking for something to fill an empty void in their lives? As they grew into adults why did they continue? Was it the money? Did they enjoy what they were doing? How did they get started? Were they forced into this line of "work?" And how do they ever quit? Do they wait until they are too old and no longer attractive to men?
Honest revelation exposes abuse
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by Dennis Fleming "Author: She Had No Enemies: A Memoir"
Jane McCormick's "Breaking My Silence: confessions of a Rat Pack party girl and sex trade survivor", written with Patti Wicklund, is a memoir about loss--the loss of one woman's identity. Sexually abused at the early age of three, Jane began to withdraw and found a deep need for parents who would put her first. That need was never fulfilled. The first hint of where her life was going was her mother's statement in the delivery room, a reference I assume from family history, "I wish this baby would hurry up and come out, so I can get back to living my life".
To fill the hole in her heart, Jane tried to find the American dream complete with a little house complete with white picket fence. Instead, she plunged into bad relationships with men who never put her first and a dysfunctional marriage which eventually took away her two children, her life raft in a struggle that became more turbulent with each passing day.