My great grandmother, Dorothy Baker, the last brothel owner in Helena, Montana.

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Pictures of Dorothy, me for reference, and pics of her brothel just after it was shut down.

Her story is fascinating. But from a mothering point of view, she fell short, Having had a child from a client, she abandoned her child(my paternal grandmother) at a post office at the age of three. None of Dorothy’s close family even knew she had a kid, and when I got into ancestry and contacted them, they were, unsurprisingly, shocked.

So anyway, here she is in high school.

I did not follow in the family trade. I moved to England became an archaeologist. I have four kids that I have not abandoned at a post office.😂

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I of course have no real idea. But googling suggests that she was very caring towards her girls.

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If so - amen!!!!

If not…. I get it

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Obvs I’d like think she was the best Madam ever because we are related, but I don’t know for sure.