Some of this is down to linguistics – much in the book turns on the gaps between English and Bulgarian, and in particular the word priyatel, which Mitko deploys to mean friend, boyfriend and client.
Could it have been a disgruntled ex-boyfriend or client?
Generally, the longer you've been wherever your boyfriend's clients are getting high, the more the sedative effect has kicked in, and the more inane they become.
Women described physical beatings by husbands, boyfriends and clients.
Michael Sherman, a Stamford lawyer who is representing the boyfriend, said his client had been cooperative.
Regardless of how anyone feels about terminating an unwanted pregnancy, it's only prudent for a clinic worker to hesitate before reporting the unidentified boyfriend of a client to cops.
The younger girls are more popular and many carry teddy bears and call their regular clients "boyfriend" in order to drum up custom.
Peggy becomes alienated after separate fights with her boyfriend Abe and a client.
Filling myself back up in this way allows me to show up in partnership with my boyfriend, with my friends, clients, and students from a truly whole and nourished place.
Once, Randall learned that a client's former boyfriend was seeing someone new, not from the former boyfriend himself -- also a regular -- but from a colleague who went to see Randall at the former boyfriend's suggestion.
It is difficult to quantify how many real mall girls there are since they do not identify themselves as sex workers and call their clients "boyfriends" or "benefactors" to maintain the illusion that they are not prostitutes.
