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Copy of Letter I just Mailed Senator Nancy Collins in Mississippi

Dear Ms. Collins:   I just read http://djournal.com/view/full_story/20874748/article-Human-trafficking-a-growing-concern-among-lawmakers--enforcers?instance=home_news_right     Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jody Williams. You can read about my work with trafficking victims in John Quinones book "Heroes Among Us" that you can google actually and read online. I also have decades of news clippings at http://www.hightechmadam.blogspot.com/2010/08/news-clippingsbiography.html showing that I've not only been working in the field of helping sex trafficking victims for almost 40 years now - but I'm also a survivor myself.     Unlike the "typical" (if there is such a thing) victim of trafficking - my case was a little different. The family of pimps who "turned me out" came not only from a literal family of pimps that had been doing this generation after generation (spoken about openly by Richard Pryor as this was