Tracy Lords and Ginger Lynn, the Price of Fame/edit 1

Traci Lords and Ginger Lynn, the price of fame/ edit 1

fiction
edward w pritchard



This is a lament on the price one must pay to gain fame and celebrity and continues with comments on the brevity of existence.


Traci Lords and Ginger Lynn, two celebrities who paid the price to gain fame. Traci started very young, shocking an entire industry, but that was long ago. Times change and new aspirants appear, eager to pay the price for fame. Like Traci Lords did so long ago.

Traci Lords you seem to be doing ok now with that indomitable will. At least so it seems to me from afar. I hope you are well and I hope you have enough money. It must be very hard to overcome your shocking past and return to the normal sedate real world. People are so judgmental. Money, money, it helps.

I worry about Ginger Lynn sometimes. Soft in the soul maybe she is. I don't know Ginger personally, having never met but I have admired her earlier work. Ginger is too naive, too trusting that all will work out well. Relying on the kindness of strangers. What has become of Ginger. She has her modicum of fame, but is she well?


Time pulls the rug out from under us. We stand up to Time's ravages and patiently one day at a time, Time , grinds all of us down. Puts us in our place. Our youth and beauty are gone. A few pictures as a reminder of what once was. More in the case of Tracy Lords and less for Ginger Lynn, vanishing everyday, mercifully pictures vanishing everyday.

New characters are willing to pay the toll to chase fame. So soon they to be vanishing pictures on the Internet of eternity.

Smile girls, smile and wink Traci and Ginger; kind thoughts from a fan.
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