Ex-Prostitute Works to Save Women From Streets

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"I don't have anything to hide," is what [Dee Dee Perry] tells many of the girls she meets wearing short shorts and tight miniskirts. "I'm living proof that it's possible to change."

"It's fast money, it's easy money," said Perry. "But it's not always easy when the cops are handcuffing you on the street or when you get pistol whipped or you get beat down or you get in the car and you don't get paid for what you've done and you get treated like dirt."

"People don't care what you know until they know you really care," Perry said. "They have to see that you're real."

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Ex-Prostitute Works to Save Women From Streets

By Kamika Dunlap

OAKLAND, Calif. -- In the early morning hours, Dee Dee Perry gets in her car and does "spiritual drive-bys" along International Boulevard in East Oakland, Calif.

She drives up and down the busy corridor known as the "track" looking to proselytize to pros...

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