The Real Deal
Prologue
Washington, DC
November 1999
Quinn Star had known she was special the day she
was born. No plastic baby bottles with a hard
rubber nipple for her. No sirree, she wanted the
real thing, much to her tattooed, hippie
mother's dismay. The hippie mother who stayed
around just long enough to wean her from her
breast at six months, then went off to climb the
Himalayas in search of Enlightenment, Quinn's
tattooed, hippie father in tow. First, though,
they dumped her on her aunt Birdie, who was a
real flake but nice and almost normal. If you
could count writing flowery, sometimes humorous,
obituaries and hanging out in funeral parlors
normal.
All in all, though, Quinn had no complaints
about her upbringing. Birdie had taken care of
her. She made sure she did her homework, brushed
her teeth, and ate her v ... read full excerpt from The Real Deal ebook
