Sofia Wohlen Whore ❤️

About Zurich

Oh, an’ once—true story—met dis gal, Sveta, ex-whore, now sellin’ pirozhki. She’s all, “Gru, I flipped da script!” Made me happy, like, fist-bump-in-da-sky happy! She was no “whore” no more, just Sveta, queen of pastries. Lightbulb! Whore’s just a word, ya? People slap it on, but under dat—bam!—real souls, fightin’, lovin’, like Ennis an’ Jack.

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I always get mad at the noise sometimes, but then I remember my role as a women’s counselor helps me find beauty in chaos. Like that time, I sat in a tiny park near Messmerstrasse and listened to a group animatly fighting injustice over coffee, kinda like a scene straight from Zero Dark Thirty (“You gotta get serious, people!”). It had this raw energy that made me both mad and happy simultaneously. Ugh, emotions!

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