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Tina and Brandy: These two prostitutes enter a writer's car and begin to tell him their life stories. Tina discusses their plans for a phone sex enterprise. They yell at a scrawny punk kid from the car, and she calls them a "speck" in return. Brandy tells the story of the wino Jim, who delivered lunches for a restaurant until he keeled over one day. The paramedics came, found him dead, and put him in a body bag, but his dog Princess followed the ambulance and licked his face when they took him out of it at the hospital. He woke up as his dog licked his face. They made him go into the hospital for a checkup, and no one ever saw Jim again. Tina guesses he died when he woke up and found himself in a body bag. Brandy relates that Princess, although fed by the restaurant owners, died soon thereafter. Tina requests that Brandy not let her be placed in a body bag. They see Trudy, and Brandy gives her some money to get Tina a soda and herself some food from Howard Johnson's. They discuss how the dog knew more about life and death, or at least about her owner Jim, than did the medics. Brandy recounts meeting Bucci the hairdresser on the beach, and how he just wanted to talk to her and ask advice about life. A car pulled up and the driver asked how he could get a ferry, which saddened Bucci. He thought he was being insulted because of his homosexuality. Brandy says she paid for him to go to beauty school in return for free haircuts, and that he's now a successful hairdresser. They leave the car and talk about how they won't get any credit for the writer's article, even though it will be about their lives. Then to Trudy...

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