Editor’s Note: Audrina’s name and personal information has been changed or hidden at the request of living relatives.

When I left Las Vegas in the Spring of 2015 and headed to the Twin Cities, it was in part because I thought Minnesota would be the opposite of Las Vegas in many ways. What I found out was that the Twin Cities are ghetto as fuck.

Audrina and I worked together at Choice. We were two of the top earners. Audrina was kind and beautiful. She was envied by many ugly crappy hustlers, for her marketable beauty and impeccable sales skills. Audrina was humble and giving, using her stripper money to support relatives. She lived a healthy lifestyle, devoting time to exercise, healthy eating and self care. Audrina enjoyed life and the fruits of her profession. One of her last vacations was to Florida, where she enjoyed playing in the sea and eating Mexican food. Audrina was admired by many, including me.

Audrina and I were not friends, nor were we enemies. We were just colleagues, with different perspectives on Choice. Denise DuPey, who abused many dancers at Choice, almost always let Audrina leave earlier, or break other rules that everyone else at Choice had to follow. When Tom Hoskamer came into Choice, Audrina would run up to him, hug him, and refer to him as “Daddy.” That was cringe-worthy and disgusting. Preferential treatment of workers based on this type of behavior is grounds for sexual discrimination and labor abuse violations. While the staff's behaviors toward Audrina were disturbing, I didn't blame her for these things, nor did I ever speak a negative word about her in the workplace.

While Audrina was from a pleasant suburb of Minneapolis with good schools, she had a preference for urban culture. This preference manifested itself into her speaking with a certain unnatural dialect, listening to a certain type of music, and surrounding herself with a certain type of demographic. People with these kinds of preferences are statistically more likely to get shot in gang warfare and petty, plebeian inner city conflict.

I'm not sure if Audrina would have testified for Choice if she was alive at the time.

Audrina was shot on Labor Day 2016, after I had already left Choice, but before the case went to district court. She stayed in a coma for several weeks in the hospital, before dying. None of it was her fault. At the same time, people should take note and measures to avoid ShitLib cities like Minneapolis or Chicago, where bullets fly regularly.

Many people in the Minneapolis strip club industry knew about it, and even after I left Minneapolis for rural Mankato, I ran into customers there who knew her, and were mourning the loss of sweet gentle Audrina.