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My friend Chelsea Baker has published the first of nine issues of her new comic “True Stories of a Fictional Girl” detailing her stint as a phone sex operator. It is 20 pages long. It has a naughtiness factor of 2, on a strict scale of 1 to 2. A hard 2. \u00a0As it says, 18+. Chelsea Baker is a graduate of The Evergreen State College and has a BA in Comics and Sequential Art. I checked this volume and everything seems in order. 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