Stripping Like
Nobody's Business
A true story of a mother with no conscience and a stripper with too much
A Journey Of Childhood Trauma, Family Secrets & Unconditional Love
Bambi asked her father if she could ever outlive her guilt. He thought Bambi was talking about stripping and said it was nobody’s business. She thanked him for the title of this book. He never knew her secret; how she saved him from killing his wife, her mother. It’s a complicated true story like no other; half horror, half humor, about a mother with no conscience and a stripper with an excess of it, too much for her own good. The big question is how she survived and the answer is ‘just barely.’ Readers won’t want to let this book go; they will want to revisit it to find the hidden humor, which is more than just strip-tease. Bambi does everything wrong, including stripping as she survives abuse, murder, alcoholism, addiction, and a sociopathic moth. Bambi discovers the unavoidable reason we all crave unconditional love, and how to express that love. She learns much to her relief what guilt is. Five decades are covered in three very different acts because of the diversity of experiences, none for the faint of heart or grandbabies.
Bambi’s memoir makes survival entertaining. She stopped praying after noticing others needed their prayers answered first. After a life like hers, she wonders how any of us live as long as we do. If we are survivors, as most of us must be, the shape we are in is important; Feeling good is better than looking it. Stripping makes you judgmental, you have to face yourself in a mirror. That reflection had better be good, which can only come out from the inside. Happiness takes great philosophy and humor; although she thinks every time she starts her car, it could be the last start that she may need some important day. She has a second book in line about the strange, but probably predictable way her mother ends her life. It includes how Bambi continued to be a people pleaser taking care of needy elderly and needy rich people. When she finally realizes she is still killing herself for others, she moves her box into her car where she is happy to be leaving a small carbon footprint.
"Read this, it's entertainment, you won't be disappointed."
- Chris Noel, Actress (Girl Happy)
Bambi's Story
Bambi was guilty of keeping a secret that kept her father from killing her mother. She learned to be resourceful growing up without running water, electricity, television, phones, and a proper education. Bambi’s mother was different. She taught Bambi how to be a victim and martyr. After becoming fearful of making people angry she became a people-pleaser, although this is not the reason she stripped. Usually, everything went wrong, but if something went right, she thanked God, sometimes in her prayers, probably not in this book.
- Act One starts in the 1960’s with an honest coming of age story including Jell-O, rape and murder. Childhood adventures resemble Huck Finn’s if Mark Twain had been dirtier. The guilt starts here even before she strips.
- Act Two is in three parts. Nothing is made up, except the dancers. A Methodist volunteer picks out her first strip outfit even though Bambi can’t walk without crutches. Dressing room drama spares no dirty details from table to towel dances. Then parts two and three are pure entertainment anecdotes straight from strip clubs.
- Act Three rollicks through four failed marriages after she fails to find conditional love in strip clubs. She finds happiness during the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Las Vegas and Alaska. The final finish is when the towers crashed in 2001.
