IT’S MY LIFE

Lessons I Learned Dating An Ex-Pimp

The business may change but the mentality remains the same

Edwina Owens Elliott
The Memoirist
Published in
6 min readApr 13, 2024

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Image by Jo Justino from Pixabay

Early 1980s. We met at my very first art showing. I was a hit that night, and meeting the Rico Jones was icing on the cake. Almost twenty years older than me, and sexy af, he was an artist also. But in his former life, he had been a pimp and a drug addict…

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Edwina Owens Elliott
The Memoirist

Illustrator, graphic designer, indie author. A creature of habit but our evolution continues.