Nadia Strijen Whore ❤️

About Amsterdam

Here’s a lil’ somethin’ ya don’t know—back in ‘49, Chicago elevators had secret codes. Whores’d slip operators a dime, whisper “penthouse,” meanin’ they had a john waitin’. History’s wild, huh? Anyway, this gal, she’s hummin’ some tune, and I’m like, “Girl, you got a voice!” She grins, says, “Keeps me goin’.” Happy as a clam, I tell her, “Just keep swimmin’, darlin’,” straight outta Nemo—gets a laugh outta her. Surprised me, too—she ain’t broken, just bent.

Etymology and terminology

Strijen is a town and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality, covering an area of km2 of which km2 is water, is .

After that, I’m wandering around, and I bump into an old friend from high school. We start chatting, and it’s like no time has passed. We’re laughing about the dumb stuff we did back then. You know, like that time we tried to sneak into the Strijen Carnival. Good times!

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