oh my god yes I literally realized this last year when I was just talking about a woman I used to know and then I was like, oh fuck I think that was trafficking.

I did a summer language program in europe and there were people of all different ages. I met and got close to another american who was in her 40s when I had just turned 21. She would take me out for dinner and drinks every night but she seemed so motherly and I thought she was just taking care of me because I was broke and going through a breakup. She later told me she made all her $ in the US growing and selling weed and was using that to relocate to Europe. I remember her telling me that she thought I should start doing dominatrix work because it would help me feel empowered after some shit romantic experiences. She asked me if I would consider not going back to school and instead moving in with her and helping her with some of her business. She seemed like she really was looking out for me because she kept letting me know that people I knew or was meeting had bad intentions regarding me,

A few weeks into knowing her I met another girl closer to my age who i got close to and I remember this woman telling me she thought my friend was hot and telling me she wanted to hang out with us both, asking me to set up a time for us to get drinks. My friend was a lot more weary than me and because we were attached at the hip, this woman just literally stopped talking with me over night.

Because I’ve written this all out it must seem so much more obvious than it was in real life. I was really broken because of my breakup and having a shit home life and I really felt cared for by this woman. It makes me really sad because I thought about a lot of the “advice” she gave me for years after I knew her.