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hey, julie, how are you?julie vaughn is serving time for offering to commit prostitution and has prior convictions for trespassing, petty theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. >> i'm 36 now. since i was 19 until now, going back and forth, trying to get clean, messing up and using again, trying to get clean. i can remember a time when i looked down on people who smoked crack because i was only snorting coke. i looked down on hookers because i was only a dancer. every time i go out, i went just a little below my line of morals. i truly believe there's nothing i can go below now other than winding up dead. >> when is enough going to be enough, julie? you're going to get your throat cut or go to prison for five years. aren't you tired? >> yes. >> i started out when i was 18 prostituting and smoking crack. doing robberies. sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't. i'm planting the seed. they are listening eventually. i wish i had somebody when i was in my addiction like that. >> april, i want to be like y

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