This girl was NOT Voted “Most Likely to Save the World.”

No little girl thinks “I want to be a prostitute when I grow up.”  We’d rather save the world. So how is it that between reading Love’s Rescue and watching a high school production of Les Miserables in the last two weeks, I “met” so many French prostitutes?  Both stories exposed the awful circumstances that bring women into that “profession.”  And once they are there, they’re stuck.  In survival mode.  In those days, even if you got “out,” no one would hire you legitimately, no one would marry you.  It was so powerful to see, side by side, two stories where these women experienced some level of compassion and grace (with very different outcomes!  Love’s Rescue has a much happier result than Les Mis).  And I loved the way that one of these women, least likely to save the world, gets to play the heroine.