Before Porn
Circa 1991 (me being 21 years old). I had recently split up with the first boyfriend that I ever lived with. It was a bad breakup and at the time I was working at a tanning salon making a little more than minimum wage. I would do bikini contests for extra cash. One day while visiting with my mom I asked her what I should do to make extra money. she suggested that I take on a cocktail waitress job at one of the hotels on the Las Vegas strip. I told her that I had thought of that idea already. I told my mother that I knew a girl that was a cocktail waitress at a strip club who made lots of money. My mom said that it couldn’t hurt to try out cocktailing at a place like that to see if I even wanted to be a cocktail waitress. A plan was then made. A couple of days later on my day off from the tanning salon I went down to this dive strip club to see about getting a job as a cocktail waitress. This club was called ‘The Crazy Horse’. I was so nervous about going into the strip club by myself. When I opened the heavy front door of the club a very large black man greeted me. He ended up becoming a famous wrestler years later. Anyway, I asked him who I could talk to about getting a job as a cocktail waitress. He said that they weren’t hiring cocktail waitresses at that time. I was kind of bummed but wanted to check out the strip club. He walked me to the bar which was right next to the main stage to check it out. The club was pretty dark, wreaked of alcohol and the DJ was playing some hard rock. It was such a fun place to hang out at. As I looked around the club I could see girls and their customers sitting on these leather benches along the walls of both sides of the club with giant black stripper poles in front of them. It wasn’t long before the manger of the club came over to me and introduced himself to me. His name was ‘J’. He was a super nice guy. He too explained to me that they were not hiring cocktail waitresses at that time but if I was interested in stripping they could hire me right away. He gave me the tour of the entire club and introduced me to most of the girls who were working. All of the girls were so nice. I asked him if I did decide to dance, if it would be okay for me to work in the afternoon to better understand how the whole stripper thing worked. He said yes. He then took me into the office and pulled out a schedule of the days and times that I could work. After gazing at the schedule I decided to become a stripper. Now I had taken 14 years of dancing school and kind of, sort of danced around in a sexy way wearing a bikini for bikini contests at local night clubs so how hard could stripping really be? Boy was my mom going to be proud of me!
I chose to work on my days off from the tanning salon. I remember the feeling of total excitement as I walked into the dressing room for the first time. I brought a few bikini’s with me and high heels. As I looked around me in the dressing room I noticed how some of these ladies looked in the bright light. Here I was, 21 years old, new boob job, long blonde hair and very skinny. These ladies were pushing their thirties and not in the best physical shape. They were super sweet though. I remember getting dressed into one of my bikini’s and wearing a pair of cut off shorts and going over to the DJ booth to give him my list of three songs to get topless to. I can’t lie, I was very nervous but I also felt very comfortable at the same time. “Okay guys let’s put your hands together for our new dancer Kelly” the DJ blurted out over his microphone. Butterflies in the belly time was now upon me. I took a deep breath and walked up the two steps to the very large stage and started dancing. I did more dancing than I did stripping. Hey, I was a newbie how was I supposed to know when exactly to take my top off? Well on the last song it came off and the entire 7-13 customers clapped and whistled. I felt great afterward and couldn’t stop smiling. It was commented to me by one of my bosses that I was ‘the diamond in the coal mine’. I was flattered by the comment but I didn’t want any trouble from the other dancers. I just wanted to have fun, dance and make money. I wasn’t in it for the alcohol or for making some guy break his bank account. I was in no way a hustler either. I had more fun just dancing on the stage to glam rock and heavy metal (Metallica, Megadeth,Motley Crue, Cinderella, Slaughter) and then going to what was called the ‘pit’ area after I danced on stage to dance in front of the customers and collect tips. Because of my looks I made good money in the pit. The ladies quickly accepted me after they learned that I was unlike them with their super hustler abilities. I was hardly a threat in that department. One afternoon my boss Gino called me into the office and yelled at me. For weeks he had told me to have customers take me to the leather bench area and have the customer buy me the clubs over priced champagne bottle. I just couldn’t get myself to do that. It felt weird and seemed pushy as far as I was concerned. Well needless to say Gino made me cry. I was bawling. How could I possibly screw up being a stripper? Gino didn’t say that I was a screw up but I felt like I was. I told Gino that maybe stripping wasn’t for me and that I should go home. As I was about to walk out the office door to pack up my belongings Gino called me back inside of he office. He apologized and handed me a hundred dollar bill and asked that I try to get a customer every once in a while to go to the leather benches and buy me a bottle of expensive champagne. I hugged Gino, wiped my tears and told him that I would try to do my best to have a customer buy me a bottle. Wouldn’t you know that the next afternoon a customer asked for a private dance and bought a bottle of champagne for us. To this day I wonder if Gino put the customer up to it.
I started to get brave. The afternoon shift was great but I wanted to try working weekend nights. The girls who typically worked the night shift were prettier and younger than the girls that worked the afternoon shift. There were also triple the amount of girls that worked at night. Still, I wasn’t a hustler and the night shift girls took a liking to me because I wasn’t trying to steal their customers. I danced, stripped off my top and made my money and went straight home after work. My schedule became very open after I quit the tanning salon. I decided to work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday night and Saturday night. I took off every other Sunday night and off on Mondays. I am so glad that I kept my afternoon shifts. One day while I was on stage I looked over at the bar and standing there was Mike Tyson and a few of his friends just hanging out talking with my day time manager. I suddenly got real nervous as all of them turned to watched me dance. I was a big Tyson fan as a teenager and there he was in the club that I danced at watching me dance. After I danced the pit area I went to the office and knocked on the door. I wanted to meet Mike Tyson. I could hear all kinds of chatter and laughter. Then the door swung open. All eyes were on me. I felt like a piece cheese at a mouse convention. I became speechless. Gino broke my silence for me and introduced to Mike and his friends. Mike was wearing leather overalls without a shirt. He was a very polite and handsome man. We all talked for about 15 minutes and then I excused myself. I went back to the dressing room and told the ladies who were in there that I couldn’t believe that Iron Mike Tyson was here at the club. They laughed at me and said that he was a regular guest to the club and that our manager J was really good friends with him. The ladies were right, Mike frequented the club and whenever I was there working he would have me come over to the leather bench section and hang out with him. We would talk about his training and giggle at some of the dancers that were sloppy drunk and would fall down on and off the stage. He was just a cool guy to be around. A couple of times he brought his trainer in with him. His trainer Richie and I became good friends. Richie would take me to the gym where he and Mike trained. We’d go out to dinner and he would tell me stories about the world of boxing and Mike’s investment in dairy farms. Interesting stuff. When Mike had a Vegas fight I had a ticket where the press got to sit. It was so surreal. Richie was awesome. I started taking an extra day off a week to hang out with Richie. There was one thing that I did not know about Richie until one late morning when I came by Richie’s apartment to go to breakfast. There was this blanket rolled into a giant ball on the couch. I jumped on it, knowing very well that Richie was underneath it. WRONG! It wasn’t Richie, it was his twin brother Bobby. I scared the crap out of him. Poor guy didn’t know what the hell was going on. Either did I. Here’s this guy asking me who I was and there I was thinking that Richie was playing some kind of a crazy joke on me. Finally Bobby told me who he was and we both went into Richie’s room and woke him up. Richie couldn’t stop laughing. Soon my new friends would be going back to Ohio and I would be going back to my regular work schedule. I didn’t mind though. I really enjoyed my job.
It was soon time for me to move to the new club that my boss was opening up called ‘Cheetah’s’. It quickly became the hottest club to be working at. It was more of an upscale gentlemen ’s club. The Crazy Horse was still open and running but could not even come close to competing with Cheetah’s. There were TONS of girls who worked there. They were really pretty too. Still, I wasn’t a threat to these seasoned strippers because the gift of hustling was never given to me. I was the girl whose picture appeared on the VIP card to the club as well my picture being blasted all over the back of taxi cabs throughout Las Vegas. I didn’t need to hustle. Guys wanted to meet the ‘girl on the card’. My schedule became a night time schedule. The club was always packed on the weekends. I didn’t really enjoy working when the club was that packed though. All types of men came to this club. Mostly men who were well dressed. Some of them seemed real stuffy and I would gravitate towards the the guys who were less uptight looking. Then for the first time as a stripper I met a really good looking guy at the club who later became my boyfriend and that I moved in with. It was a short lived relationship. I am going to spare us all of the boring details and get to the point. He liked the money that I was making and sharing with him. I felt like I was getting taken advantage of so I dumped him and moved out. Plain and simple. I moved back into my parents house. I had no choice. I just needed to get out of that situation fast. Of course my parents knew that I was a full on stripper and they were totally cool about it.
I became friends with these two girls at work, Amber and Jade. They were really cool and I needed to have some girlfriends to just hang out with after work. Amber and I were about the same size with both our height and weight. Jade was a fitness model type. She was bad ass. People would mistake Amber and I for each other at the club all of the time. Guys were asking her if she was the girl on the VIP card. We would even dance together on stage. We made up this story that we were sisters that had been separated as children and we found each other again at the strip club. Yeah it was a far fetched story but it was pretty funny to hear people’s reactions to our little story. Then came my first news braking story. I went to San francisco with a guy that I was seeing and right after I got home I got a phone call from Amber telling me that the television show ‘A Current Affair’ wanted to do a story on Amber and I and how we searched for each other for years and finally found each other at the strip club. I couldn’t believe it! This was a total lie. I asked Amber how this came about and she told me that while I was in San Fran that these guys came into the club and wanted to meet the girl on the VIP card. The bouncer then told these nice gentlemen that I wasn’t there but my ’sister’ was. Amber said that she had no idea who these guys were at the time and started telling them our made up story. the next thing she knew they gave her their card and told her to have us call them. They found our story to be unbelievable and interesting. Sure it was interesting because it WAS unbelievable~ we made the whole thing up!
After a few discussions Amber and I decided to go forward with our make believe story. We were a little scared though. What if they did a background check on us and found out that we weren’t related. We gave this guy George a call and set up a meeting. We had a meeting and went over the shots they would need for the show and that they wanted to shoot this story right away. They never even asked us for our last name. We decided to go for it . As this whole thing was going down I met this really cool guy ‘V’ who came into the club one early evening. He was tall, had brownish hair almost down to his shoulders, beautiful blue/green eyes and a large nose (I am a total sucker for big noses). V also had a Harley davidson Motorcycle. Now that to any young stripper was hot as hell! He and I talked for a long while at the club and then exchanged phone numbers. We called each other the next day and soon enough V and I went on dates. I really liked this guy. He was funny, handsome and dare devilish (bunjee jumping and all that kind of stuff). So as I started dating V, Amber and I began filming for A Current Affair. I didn’t want to use my real name so for television I changed it to Victoria (the letter V in honor of my V named guy).
It only took a few days to film Amber and I. They had us re-inact our meeting each other for the first time since we were children at a bus stop. They even had me provide baby pictures of Amber and I (I used pictures of my sister and I when we were kids). Our final day of shooting was at Cheetah’s where Amber and I dressed in matching sequined bras and panties dancing around a stripper pole. The show aired weeks later and my family cracked up. We all couldn’t believe that this silly made up story was on television. The next day my godmother called my mom in a bit of a panic asking her if I had found my birth mother and just found out that I had a sister too. My godmother obviously watched the show. I was so embarrassed. My mom let her know that it was a made up story and that I had no intention of looking for my birth mother. My godmother thought it was a pretty funny story. The show was a hit. We were even a bigger hit at the club. Everyone wanted to meet the sisters from A Current Affair, Victoria and Amber.
Work was pretty busy but I needed a break. V called and asked me if I wanted to go to Los Angeles with he and his friends. They were going on ‘The Love Ride’ which is a biker event that takes place in LA. I was willing and ready. We drove down to LA with his friend ‘K’ with the bikes in the back of K’s big Ford truck. We all had a blast on the Love Ride. I even saw Billy Idol being dragged by his body guards out of the event (he was piss ass drunk). Who knew then that I would befriend Billy later on in my life. Back to V and K. I felt bad for K because while everyone else had a chick on the back of their bike he didn’t. He was a short and very handsome guy. By short I mean under the average height of 5′8-5′10. Nonetheless K was super fun to be around and he had some kind of an aire about him. K didn’t have a girl with him because his girlfriend at the time was living in the Bahamas. She was a female impersonator and had a gig singing as Madonna at some resort. But still, I felt sorry for K being the odd man out. I would always make an effort to go over and talk to K when he was just standing around by himself.
It was well over a month since the Love Ride and Amber and I had an offer to dance at the opening of ‘Stringfellows’ Gentlemen’s club in New York City. Amber had previously danced at this chain of strip (Michael j. Peters who had teamed up with Peter Stringfellow) clubs so she was the person responsible for us being able to dance at the grand opening of this lavish club. I really liked V but I had to make a living and thought that it would be fun to go back to NY and to experience the strip club scene on the East Coast. I told V that for his christmas present I was going to fly him to New York to spend Christmas with me. He had never been to NY before and I was super excited to bring him there~ I’m sure that he was excited too. In the next week to follow I headed out to New York.
This had to be one of the most beautiful strip clubs that I had ever been to. It was once a popular night club that was turned into a very upscale gentlemen’s club with a five star restaurant inside the club. There were HUNDREDS of beautiful girls who came from other clubs all over the USA to dance there. I just couldn’t believe how awesome this club was. All the staff that worked in the club and even the DJ had to wear tuxedos. With all those sexy women came TONS of men with TONS of money to spend. I couldn’t believe how much money I made in my first week there. No need to hustle either. Right after I would get off the main stage I would be getting requests for dances. Amber made way more money than I. She WAS a hustler and she was a pro. But I was very content with the money that I was making. Celebrities like David Lee Roth (whom I got a standing ovation from after I danced to a Van Halen song on the main stage), singer and song writer Babyface and even Robert DeNiro frequented the club. This club did have strict rules though. the dancers had to wear evening gowns or very fancy dresses, beautiful hair and makeup, being on time for work was a MUST and when we would do a lap dance for a costumer we had to dance (more like wiggle) on these round wooden pedestal things . The men couldn’t touch you and you couldn’t touch the men. It was so bizarre. But hey, the rules were the rules and I followed them.
Christmas was right around the corner. I was getting so excited to see V. Amber’s boyfriend ‘D’ was coming out to NY for the Holidays too. V and D flew out to NY together. I came up with this sexy plan, we should pick up our guys in a giant limo wearing ONLY our brand new leather trench coats and high heeled shoes. She was in. So when our men arrived to the airport there we were in our trench coats and heels. Being that it was winter the guys had no idea that we were naked underneath our coats. After getting their luggage we took them out to our limo and they were shocked. What really shocked V was that I opened my coat and gave him a peek at what I ‘wasn’t’ wearing. He liked that. I felt like a rebel, a dirty rebel
. As I later found out, Amber kind of chickened out. She was NOT naked under that trench coat of hers. She opted for a black bra and panty set. Yeah, I was the rebel alright. On opposite sides of this stretch limo were two very happy couples totally making out with each other. What a perfect way for V to arrive to New York!
Amber and I shared room at this hotel that the club put us up at. We had two queen beds. It wasn’t a very big room but hey, it was free. So the four of us shared this room. We all got along very well. When Amber and D would go out, V and I would do our ‘business’. I’m sure that when V and I left to walk around the city that Amber and D were doing their ‘business’. We all respected each other’s privacy.
On Christmas Eve I took V to my meet my grandparents. They lived in College Point NY which was right outside the city. We got in a cab and we were on our way. We spent two nights with them at their house. I couldn’t believe that my grandmother let V and I sleep in the same bed. My grandmother was a church going woman and I thought for sure that she would have us in separate bedrooms because we were only boyfriend and girlfriend. Boy was I surprised. She cooked us dinner and then we all hung out in the small living room and talked . Later V and I walked down to a local restaurant/bar (called The Four Corners) that my dad went to when he was a young man. The bartender even remembered my father. We had a nice time talking and drinking. I got so drunk! Now we walked in the snow, in the freezing cold to get to the bar that was at the most four blocks away. Somehow on our way back to my grandparents house we got lost. I’m not sure how long it took us to get back but it was getting late. I felt so horribly knowing that we were going to wake my grandparents up when we got to the house. I was so drunk and tried so hard to keep my composure when my grandmother answered the door to let us in. She asked us if we had a good time, I told her yes and I said good night then we darted upstairs to bed. The next morning she made us breakfast and woke us up. I was very hungover. She knew it too. I couldn’t live with the guilt so I told her that I drank to much wine and that’s why I ran upstairs to bed. She just laughed and said “that’s what your father did every time he would come home drunk from that bar” “he would just say good night and go straight to bed”. We all laughed at that story. I very much enjoyed spending time with my grandparents and having them meet V. They seemed to really like him.
I was becoming very sad because in a few days V would be going home and I was going to miss him terribly. Before I knew it he was on a plane heading back home to Las Vegas. I went back to work at the club and a few days later I got homesick.
Not to long after I had these feelings I returned home to Vegas and stayed with my parents. I went back to Cheetahs to dance and got to spend time with V. My other girl friend Jade wanted to try out the NY club, so a week or so later I was off once again to NY. There was good money to be made in NY and I thought it would be a nice change for Jade to try out this club. V and I were still dating and spent as much time as we could together before I left again.
The trip back to NY wasn’t as fun as my first trip. Amber became really weird about making lots of money and wasn’t to thrilled about Jade being there with us. Amber’s attitude was pretty shitty towards Jade even though we were all friends. I’m not sure if Amber had something to do with it but one of the managers called Jade into the office and said that she wasn’t a ‘Stringfellows’ type of a dancer and they asked her to go home. I couldn’t believe it. How shitty of them to do that to Jade. She was beautiful. Jades feelings were very hurt. I felt horrible for her. She left the following morning to go home to Vegas. A couple of nights later a guy came in and showered me with lots of money while I was on one of the stages. Amber got pissed that I didn’t pass him along to her after I danced on stage. I had no idea that she wanted me to tell this nice guy who just threw hundreds of dollars at me to go and toss over more money to her. I’m not a mind reader and personally that’s not how I operate. If she wanted him to give her money, being the intense hustler that she was, then she should have asked him for a dance or something. Well Amber started running her mouth in the club calling me an ungrateful bitch and giving me major attitude. I was flat out pissed. Especially since Jade had just been sent home the days before. I went downstairs to the dressing room and there was Amber taking my stuff out of her locker ( we would swap dresses so she had a couple of my dresses in her locker). She gave me such a dirty look and began raising her voice in such a nasty tone to me. I told her that she better shut the fuck up or I would take her by the hair and rub her face up and down the locker slots like cheese on a cheese grater. Yeah, that’s how angry I was. I was crying and shaking. My heart was pounding out of my chest. I was inches away from taking this snobby bitch down. What a nasty, money hungry bitch. I gathered my belongings then went to the manager of the club’s office and told him that I was going back home to Vegas. He was really cool and apologized for Amber’s behavior towards me. I went back to the hotel that Amber and I shared, packed up my stuff and headed to the airport. I didn’t care that I had to spend the rest of my night at the airport. I just wanted to stay away from that evil asshole.
Later that morning I was back in Vegas and so happy to be home. I didn’t want to stay at my parents so Jade let me rent a bedroom in her apartment that she shared with her boyfriend ‘J ‘. Right after I moved in with Jade I noticed that V was kind of blowing me off. We didn’t talk on the phone as much and he didn’t spend the night with me as much as he could have. Something was up. I am the kind of person that doesn’t like to ‘guess’ what’s going on with a relationship. It’s either yeah we are doing great or no it’s not working out. Well V hurt his wrist and I asked him to spend the night. He came over and we talked a little bit and then he wanted to take a shower. I felt like he didn’t want to be around me. I finall asked him what was going on with us. He said that he wasn’t sure. He needed time to think about us. Well I took that as goodbye and we argued and he left my place. I was so sad and so confused.
A few days went by without me hearing a word from him. I was sick to my stomach. I decided to call his friend K to see if there was any information that he could give me as to why V would be behaving like this. K asked me if I wanted to talk over dinner at this Italian restaurant. I agreed and he picked me up later that evening and off we went to dinner.
K was really a sweet guy. He was dressed very nicely and wore a wonderful smelling cologne. We had some wine with dinner and I got tipsy. After dinner K asked me if I wanted to hang at his place for a little while. I was up for hanging out. At least it kept my mind off of V. K and I sat on the couch and watched TV. I was completely relaxed until his phone rang. It was V. He told K that he knew that I was there with him and he was pissed. If I remember correctly, a friend of V’s even came by the house to see what was going on between K and I. We didn’t let the guy in. It was so strange. I told K that maybe I should go back to my place because I didn’t want to stir up any kind of shit between he and V by me being at his house. K didn’t want me to leave. He finally gave in and told me what V had done on my second trip out to NY. Apparently this nasty chick that was friends with V and K came by K’s one night and V came over as well. I guess they had been drinking and this unattractive beast gave V a blow job. I was floored! I so easily could have hooked up with many guys in NY if I wanted to. I didn’t because V and I were supposed to have been dating. I felt like such an idiot. K asked if I wanted to spend the night. I said yes and told him that I was not going to have sex with him. Inside I still had feelings for V even though his actions were completely fucked up. I went into the master bedroom with K and we went to sleep.
The next morning I woke up, reached over to K and started kissing him. Before I knew it I was on top of him having sex. No regrets! I felt liberated. Who the hell did V think he was pulling that shit on me? K and I even made plans for that same night after he got off from work. I was going to have fun and be happy.
Later that same day K picked me up, we ate some dinner and then we were off to a night club. In the car K asked me if I wanted to take some X (exctasy) with him. I said yes and we took it inside of this popular night club at the time called ‘The Shark Club’ at the downstairs bar. The X kicked in about 20 minutes after I took it. At first I got all shaky and panicky and told K that I was scared. He reassured me that I would be fine and to just give it another 10 minutes to really kick in and make me mellow. K was dead on. An orgasmic wave came over my entire body. I did not have a care in the world. K and I moved upstairs (with the way I felt it was more like floating up the stairs) and we took over a leather couch. We kissed and touched each other’s faces, arms and hair. My sense of touch never felt so strong. I was so incredibly into K. We stayed on that couch for hours. As K and I were going down the stairs to leave we saw V walking towards us. We ducked and went around him. I was so over V.
That was the second night in a row that I slept over K’s house. We had such a great time together that before I knew it I was sleeping at K’s every night. K asked me to move in with him and so I did. I was still working at Cheetah’s. K didn’t like that to much. He would get up really early to go to work and I would come home a few hours before he would wake up for work. He owned his own business and was very hands on with his work. There would be many nights that I would call into work to say that I was not coming in. The owner of the club was my friend so he was pretty cool about me skipping work. Going to work wasn’t fun anymore. I had more fun being around K.
I called into work one afternoon to say that I wasn’t coming in because I had serious menstral cramps. I laid on the couch most of the day in curled into a ball and in so much pain. K came home from work at around 5pm that evening. He wanted to take me to dinner. I was feeling so crappy and didn’t feel like going anywhere. He was so pushy about it. I was such an emotional wreck that I broke down and started crying. I was in pain, felt ugly and gross and didn’t want to leave the house. K then said we could go some place casual to eat but first he needed to stop by one of his jobs. I was so bitchy towards him. I finally gave in. We got into his corvette and headed out to his jobsite. While in the car I started crying again. K seemed nervous. We were only a few blocks from the house. He stopped the car and handed me a little black box. I gave him a puzzled look and opened the box. It was a 1 carat diamond engagement ring. I started crying again and then I felt like a complete asshole for being so bitchy. K’s original plan to ask me to marry him was by taking me to a really nice dinner and having my ring put in a glass of champagne and when we would toast I would see the engagement ring. I ruined his sweet plan. I said yes to his proposal and then called my parents, my sister and my new best friend Jade. K and I even drove over to Jade’s to show her my ring. I was so surprised and so excited. We planned to have our wedding take place 11 months later. At that point K said that I should quit my job at Cheetah’s and take care of stuff around the house and plan our wedding. I went to Cheetah’s for my final hoorah and had shots with Jade. I was so drunk that I could barely make it on stage to dance so I crawled onto the stage and rolled around like a complete drunken idiot. Jade couldn’t help but laugh at me. Shit, I would have laughed at me too.
I immediately started planning our wedding. K and I were both catholic and thought it would be nice (especially for our parents) if we got married in the catholic church. We both had made all of our sacraments and were able to be married in the church. We had to take marriage preparation classes for over a month before we could get married in church. The classes were at night and this was a little tough for K because he had to be be awake for work at 5~5:30 am. There were a couple of times that K would start dozing off in class. I’d have to nudge him to wake him up. The class was pretty small. Maybe 7 couples or so. The class was to help you really get to know and understand your partner better and to get you prepared for your life long marriage together with the guidance of God. I think that God was absent for our class as well as for our life long commitment together.
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